I am not sure if Bede has his ears on, but I recall him commenting at some point in some venue on the topic of 'clustering'. I can't remember the context of his post and I don't know if it is relevant but I throw it out there.Transition9er2 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 10:04 am
In all my years of flying in the airlines I have not heard of a single pilot incapacitation resulting in an emergency landing, we train for it, but I’ve never seen let alone heard of it. Now to have 2 in the span of 4 weeks at the same airline and ppl say it’s just wild and crazy conspiracy theories?? Oh, and don’t you dare think otherwise… this seems like the real overreaction.
Additionally, it is well known that the human brain is a pattern recognition machine by dint of evolutionary forces favouring those creatures that could recognize patterns, remember those patterns, and in the case of danger associated with those patterns, avoid them or take protective action. Although a dataset of two is tough to make a pattern from, our brain wants to. Everything in our primate brain urges us to assign a pattern to a temporally random grouping of two events.
I get it Transition9er2. There is a powerful desire to associate the two events. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be anything connecting the two events other than time.