{"id":7194,"date":"2016-02-23T19:08:32","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T02:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=7194"},"modified":"2016-02-23T19:08:32","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T02:08:32","slug":"where-coincidences-come-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2016\/02\/23\/where-coincidences-come-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Where coincidences come from"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2016\/02\/the-true-meaning-of-coincidences\/463164\/?utm_source=SFTwitter\">Julie Beck<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Beitman in his research has found that certain personality traits are linked to experiencing more coincidences\u2014people who describe themselves as religious or spiritual, people who are self-referential (or likely to relate information from the external world back to themselves), and people who are high in meaning-seeking are all coincidence-prone. People are also likely to see coincidences when they are extremely sad, angry, or anxious.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCoincidences never happen to me at all, because I never notice anything,\u201d Spiegelhalter says. \u201cI never talk to anybody on trains. If I\u2019m with a stranger, I don\u2019t try to find a connection with them, because I\u2019m English.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Beitman, on the other hand, says, \u201cMy life is littered with coincidences.\u201d He tells me a story of how he lost his dog when he was 8-or-9-years-old. He went to the police station to ask if they had seen it; they hadn\u2019t. Then, \u201cI was crying a lot and took the wrong way home, and there was the dog \u2026 I got into [studying coincidences] just because, hey, look Bernie, what\u2019s going on here?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julie Beck: Beitman in his research has found that certain personality traits are linked to experiencing more coincidences\u2014people who describe themselves as religious or spiritual, people who are self-referential (or likely to relate information from the external world back to themselves), and people who are high in meaning-seeking are all coincidence-prone. People are also likely&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}