{"id":42397,"date":"2025-06-07T08:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T13:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=42397"},"modified":"2025-06-07T08:57:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T13:57:13","slug":"word-of-the-day-1043","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/06\/07\/word-of-the-day-1043\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Apophenia<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Apophenia<\/b>\u00a0(<span class=\"rt-commentedText nowrap\"><span class=\"IPA nopopups noexcerpt\" lang=\"en-fonipa\"><a title=\"Help:IPA\/English\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Help:IPA\/English\">\/<span title=\"\/\u00e6\/: 'a' in 'bad'\">\u00e6<\/span><span title=\"'p' in 'pie'\">p<\/span><span title=\"\/o\u028a\/: 'o' in 'code'\">o\u028a<\/span><span title=\"\/\u02c8\/: primary stress follows\">\u02c8<\/span><span title=\"'f' in 'find'\">f<\/span><span title=\"\/i\u02d0\/: 'ee' in 'fleece'\">i\u02d0<\/span><span title=\"'n' in 'nigh'\">n<\/span><span title=\"\/i\/: 'y' in 'happy'\">i<\/span><span title=\"\/\u0259\/: 'a' in 'about'\">\u0259<\/span>\/<\/a><\/span><\/span>) is the tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated things.<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apophenia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in the list <em>Cognitive Biases and Heuristics<\/em> in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/skepticalinquirer.org\/2025\/04\/highly-effective-thinkers-critical-thinking-for-teens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Highly Effective Thinkers: Critical Thinking for Teens<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Timothy Redmond, Skeptical Inquirer (May\/June 2025, paywall). A lovely article on strategies for communicating survival skills in the Digital Age to teenagers, or, as I think of it, skills for self-awareness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apophenia: Apophenia\u00a0(\/\u00e6po\u028a\u02c8fi\u02d0ni\u0259\/) is the tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated things. [Wikipedia] Noted in the list Cognitive Biases and Heuristics in &#8220;Highly Effective Thinkers: Critical Thinking for Teens,&#8221; Timothy Redmond, Skeptical Inquirer (May\/June 2025, paywall). A lovely article on strategies for communicating survival skills in the Digital Age to \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/06\/07\/word-of-the-day-1043\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42397"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42399,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42397\/revisions\/42399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}