Coincidence, correlation and chance

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Andrew Stickland writes entertainingly about coincidence correlation chance and the downsides of human’s ability to see patterns. Well spotted Jon Howard. Like Jon, I enjoyed Andrew’s ingenious idea for an email scam around predicting football results…

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links for 2006-03-08

YouTube – iPod Customer Service – the Dirty secret Great example of customer-generated video spotted by Anders Gronstedt (tags: branding opensaucelive opensourcemarketing) Pixoh: Edit pictures online Clever little application spotted