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by arthens 458 days ago
I'm not weighting in on the ability of people to detect patterns, but hand washing is a bad example.

Detecting a pattern between 2 things that did happened (everyone but Dave ate pork, and everyone but Dave got sick) is orders of magnitude easier than detecting a pattern between something that did happened (this patient got sick) and something that didn't (everyone washed their hands).