{"id":116,"date":"2002-08-13T17:26:45","date_gmt":"2002-08-14T00:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stefangeens.com\/?p=116"},"modified":"2002-08-13T17:26:45","modified_gmt":"2002-08-14T00:26:45","slug":"coincidence-or","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/2002\/08\/coincidence-or\/","title":{"rendered":"Coincidence, or&#8230;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York TImes Magazine&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2002\/08\/11\/magazine\/11COINCIDENCE.html\">article on coincidence<\/a> this past Sunday is a great exposition of why people believe in conspiracy theories. Or buy lottery tickets. Or believe in astrology. Most salient point: we may be hard-wired genetically to miscalculate probabilities. It is best (for our survival) to see too many connections than not to see any at all. A great read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York TImes Magazine&#8217;s article on coincidence this past Sunday is a great exposition of why people believe in conspiracy theories. Or buy lottery tickets. Or believe in astrology. Most salient point: we may be hard-wired genetically to miscalculate probabilities. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/2002\/08\/coincidence-or\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7eNhC-1S","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}