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Originally Posted by zendawn
They had a similar item on the Richard and Judy show, about how people see coincidence in certain things. Like the old urban myth about the bloke out for a walk, and gets a wrong no on a public phone, thats his friend phoning him.
Is it just us wanting to find meaning in a meaningless life?
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I think the issue is that people see meaning or purpose rather than coincidence in things that are pure coincidence.
When people see this, they go out hunting for 'proof' for the theory. Try Googling for "paul is dead"...
Slightly on topic, the predictions made by Nostradamus are notoriously vague, and people get excited by the instances where they can read an actual event into it. The 'misses' are typically disregarded, when you ought to take both hits and misses into account when judging whether these predictions hold water. But then, the vagueness really doesn't help...
I can recall a couple of instances where someone's predicted the end of the world in the past 25 years. We're still here, so I tend to take these things with more than a pinch of slt.