The Law of Five is a working example of such failures of critical thinking as apophenia (mistakenly perceiving connections and meaning between unrelated things), selection bias, and confirmation bias.

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Punk rock philosopher. Liberalist contrarian. Grumpy old bastard. I grew up in a generational-Labor-voting family. I kept the faith long after the political left had abandoned it. In the last decade...