This is because we are wired to believe that any apparent pattern must have an identifiable cause, and thus cannot be random.

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Its officers began to search people, pretty much at random and often with little cause, on the streets, in housing estates and in apartment blocks.

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Random changes in audio: quite what would cause that is unknown.

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