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two unrelated things bumping into each other while your brain insists it means something
means the occurrence of two or more events at the same time or in a way that seems connected, but happens purely by chance.
from From Latin coincidere, 'to fall upon together,' built from co- ('together') plus incidere ('to fall upon, happen'), which itself joins in- ('on, upon') with cadere ('to fall'). So a coincidence is literally two things falling into the same spot at once. It entered English through medieval Latin and French in the 1600s, first as a stiff term for things occupying the same space, before it drifted toward the eerie sense of events landing together by chance. The 'fall' in cadere is a busy root — also lurking in 'accident,' 'cadence,' and 'decay.'
- birthday math
- 23 people, 50% chance two share a birthday
- named bias
- apophenia is seeing patterns that aren't there
- lincoln-kennedy
- famous parallels mostly cherry-picked from countless options
- law of truly large numbers
- with enough trials, the absurd becomes inevitable
- gambler's trap
- coins have no memory of past flips
titanic and wreck found — ship sank april 15, 1912; found april 15, 1985 — exactly 73 years later to the day