Talk:Pareidolia

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There is a techinical term for specifically seeing faces in everything. is that the same as pareidolia? or is it a different term? and either way, if we find the term, it should be included. Pink mowse.pngEn attendant Godot 17:52, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

Not sure. Will go and kiss Google's ass for a minute. ADK...I'll annihilate your deviant! 18:08, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
Not that I can tell. See the Wikipedia article on Face perception. but generally it's all pareidolia. ADK...I'll reward your wizard! 18:15, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
Thanks. it's still amazing to me that the brain will necessarily make two dots and a line under them always appear as a face. the "meme" page linked is a riot, but you can see these emotions in sinks, cups, fruit... even though there is no emotion in a sink. maybe in a fruit.Pink mowse.pngEn attendant Godot 18:19, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
This one is my favourite as you can see even the ship is shocked and embarrassed by the movie. ADK...I'll negate your pool table! 11:06, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
Birds are pretty good for this. My favorites are the shit-eating grin birds and birds flipping the bird. Nebuchadnezzar (talk) 03:56, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
I'm immediately reminded of Smug Kookaburras. There's a smug Dawkins lookalike on there somewhere. ADK...I'll duel your alcohol! 14:03, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

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[edit] Audio pareidolia

I swear i'm hearing non distinct voices chattering when there is cacophony, as if there are people in another room. I also "hear" English words, when listening to chaotic or frenetic conversations of people who are speaking languages i do not know. is this the same phenomena?Pink mowse.pngEn attendant Godot 03:11, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

Could be. I've heard similar things in busy polyglot environments. Speech and electrical atmospheric noise have enough differences that they could be processed in different parts of the brain. I do not know, but I suspect one is more likely to project some meaning onto strange speech than onto faint imagined beeps. Sprocket J Cogswell (talk) 03:19, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
I imagine it's exactly the same thing at play. You can very easily be alerted if someone says something important to you in a crowd, the usual example is your own name (visually analogues of this being familiar faces, letters or words). Your brain constantly cross-references sensory input with what it knows and expects to be important. It discards the unimportant stuff. "Hearing things" is undoubtedly a side-effect of this as it tries to compare the noise with existing phenomena and generates false positives. ADK...I'll refill your fiddle! 15:37, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
Yeah, this is basically how backmasking works. Nebuchadnezzar (talk) 18:43, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
Paul is dead.Pink mowse.pngGodotThe Peyote God awaits 16:49, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
I think that one is just reading too much into things. ADK...I'll defenestrate your aviator! 18:05, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
LOL - goo goo ga juoo, goo goo goo.Pink mowse.pngGodotThe Peyote God awaits 18:06, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

[edit] To whoever added the Big Bang Theory joke

You are awesome. Wehpudicabok (talk) 08:07, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

[edit] Bayes' Theorem

Is the listed version of Bayes' theorem a correct alternative? It appears to be missing a few terms.. — Unsigned, by: 169.244.25.226 / talk / contribs

If you're talking about how you could expand the denominator into a summation, then that's not missing terms, that is just a different way to write the same thing. Nullahnung (talk) 19:05, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
p(B) == p(B|A) * p(A) + p(B|~A) * p(~A)? — Unsigned, by: 169.244.25.226 / talk / contribs
Ah... yeah it does doesn't it. Is the form I was thinking of usually used when you know the consequent probability given either A or not A, and the listed version when you have two priors and one consequent? — Unsigned, by: 169.244.25.226 / talk / contribs
They are mathematically the same thing, so ... just switch between them at your convenience I guess. Nullahnung (talk) 20:39, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
I think I added that section a while ago. I'm no longer that happy with it... might just kill it. Scarlet A.pngpathetic 15:51, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

[edit] Critters on the underground

Does [1] fit in here? 82.44.143.26 (talk) 15:00, 18 July 2014 (UTC)

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