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Patternicity can be defined as seeing something (a pattern) in something else whether it be a picture, a free, the water, or their sandwich. People will bestow more meaning on these things due to the fact that there is a pattern on it, for example seeing faces. Its easier to believe there is a reason for there to be a pattern appose to it just being by chance.

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In this video you see examples of patternicity in the form of seeing faces if different objects throughout history, you see multiple different examples, and you yourself will even be able to see the faces in these different objects. It shows how much we look for patterns such as faces all the time without even thinking about it, just the way our brain works!

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50+ Pareidolia Illusions (Seeing faces or objects through ordinary things)

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50+ pareidolia and other optical illusions. Thank you for watching! :)

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When I think Agenticity I think of shows such as Supernatural, there is a higher sense of authority whether it be the daemons, angles or god, the main characters in the show Dean and Sam are constantly fighting with these higher powers to gain control, and balance the universe. Throughout the show meaning is assigned to these authority’s as well to make the resemble something. You can define Agentiticy as a giving meaning to something whether it be real or not, the best example would be god.
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In the piece above you see a photo of the Greek goddess Aphrodite, she was know for her beauty and for being the goddess of love. As assignment the meaning of love to her, there was a tone of gods, and goddesses to the Greeks and Romans, she was one of them. The Greeks and Romans used these gods and goddesses to cope, and understand things that happen in their every day life. For example, they used Zeus the king of the gods as an explanation of lighting, if someone was struck by lighting he or she must have angered the god Zeus. The gods and goddesses where a sense of authority and what they meant was just there to help them understand the occurrences in life such as lighting, love and boat accidents. I have also attached a video from the Documentary channel about Zeus.

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Post 7: Emotional Connection Reason for Belief 

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Post 7: Emotional Connection Reason for Belief 

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Emotional connection reason for belief can be described as allowing our emotions such as love to over power our rationality, for example its easier to think you dreamed of a love one in your sleep because of a deep emotional connection rather then just being a chance. Seeing as emotion can be described as a intense feeling it is natural that in human nature we allow it to over power us, its easier then finding other reason.

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This photo represents emotional connection in the sense of twin telepathy. It is said that twins have this deep emotional connection at which allows them to communicate, share thoughts, and even pain.  This is said to not actually be the fact and it just comes down to a deeper understanding of one another a closer emotional connection, but nothing to the point of telecommunication.

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All natural can be defined as something that is claiming to be “all natural” or “holistic” when in reality it is now and in many causes are toxic, contain chemicals, or can even be deadly. When looking at all natural we can really say that it is a false claim meant to make people think something is better for them.
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In the above photo we see multiple different labels from multiple different brands showing some kind of claim at being “all natural” not once do they say they are organic and this is how we know that the claim they are making is more likely false and there is probably nothing to real or natural about these. For example, when looking at the picture you see the claim made with real fruit, some times this will also be worded as all natural fruit flavour, to consumers this is misleading. They will pick up the product thinking it is real, or natural and good for their children’s’ lunch when in reality it is not, it probably is still very high in sugar, and not made with real fruit as all.

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Mystical energy can be defined as spirituality in a way, when we look at examples of mystic energy we see examples of healing waters, placebo effects, smudging and even healing crystals (my personal favourite). So when we talk about mystical energy we are talking about “energy” not like electricity that has the ability help heal, or cure someone weather it be spiritually, emotionally or even physically, and it cannot be explained any other way then magic making it mystical. These mystical energies’ also do not tend to make sense because though we can see it working there is no scientific explanation as to why?
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As you can see for this one I put 2 photos I have also attached a video about healing crystals as well. These to me are amazing, I am trying to not like my bias rise as I personally do believe in these crystals. I wish I had more money to buy more as well. I have a couple at home myself so I am going to talk about the connection in the sense of what I have and my experiences. I have moon stone, and a couple others to me the moon stone really means a lot to me in particular. The moon stone is suppose to help with over all energy, rid off yucky feelings, and be over all good for pregnancy. Though I am not pregnant I have hormonal health issues due to my pituitary brain tumour, I arrange these stones in patterns like the one above and meditate. The crystals are said to have mystic energy which when surrounded by them or touching them transfers into your body sending what every positive vide or message that the crystal carries, there are ones for happiness, for wealth and much more. To me they are the perfect example of mystical energy, even if its not real.

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Demonstration Of Quartz Crystals Healing Energy

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8 year old kid builds crystal grids to clear negative energy and explains how it works

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8 year old Adam introduces his latest crystal grid, which he calls a "web" grid. It pulls in dark energy and transmutes it to the light. You can find Adam at http://www.crystalgridmaker.com/ it has nothing on it as of yet but I am sure he will have a method for speaking with soon enough.

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Ancient Wisdom can be defined as the knowledge of past generations such as the Mynas, or ancient Egypt. It is also can be defined as knowledge, beliefs or philosophises that date before Christian religion. We look at people such as the Egyptians as see them as wise due to their ability to build such amazing structures out of nothing but sand and rocks, or their ancient ways of prepare a body for death which are still practice today.

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To me the ancient Egyptians are a great example of ancient wisdom, they were known for being well beyond their time, with the tools they had, and their ability to build things such as the great pyramids. When you look at them you also see a lot of ancient wisdom, they were dated for before Christ making their philosophies and beliefs ancient. When you look at what the Egyptians believes in you see a lot of ancient wisdom and you also here a lot of folk lore, stories of dog looking men, women looking cats, magic and more. For my example of ancient wisdom I looked at mummification a very ancient and religious process. During mummification the internal organs are removed and put into urns, they urns represent the 4 sons, and their topper is shaped in their figures, which are suppose to protect the internal organs. The Egyptians believed in life after death and believed that the organs needed to be protected in case their kings every rose again!

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Confirmation Bias lets break this down, confirmation means to actually confirm something, say it is correct and bias means to be in favour of or particular to something or to be particularly against something. When looking at confirmation bias as a read flag it is when we look for what we want to believe and ignore what we do not want to believe. We will use what we wanted to here to confirm our biases and ignore what we did not want to here even if it could disprove out belief.

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In this video a couple of girls go around showing how confirmation bias really works. Instead of using something like a tar card reading I decided to use a more realistic example of how people use confirmation bias every day. When pair with the same socks, the exact same sock they will thought one looked more white then the other or that one was more soft then the other. Their answers are probably swayed by what brand they them selves would by or even what background color they may prefer your mind mentally does this without you even thinking about it. There are multitudes of different detergents in the store but you will always go and pick up the same one time and time again.

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Confirmation Bias: The Same Sock Psych Experiment.

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We asked shoppers whether they thought socks were brighter/softer. (they were exactly the same.) The results are astounding.

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Appeal to authority is when an authoritative figure of some kind such as a doctor or celebrity to give a study or product more credible even if that person is not credible. Examples of apple to authority is the use to people dressed in medical wear to appear to be dental hygienist, or how mister T appears in a lot of commercials for clash of clans, it gives it more of a “credible” look.
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In the above image you see a old advertisement for Viceroys cigarettes. In the add there is a man in a white lab coat, with a dental mirror in his hand with the caption “As your Dentist I would recommend Viceroys”. This is a very great example of appeal to authority, though this advertisement would not work in modern times, and we are a lot more educated now then we use to be able the dangers of smoking to our oral heath, when this advertisement was made cancer was not as big of a thing, let alone mouth cancer. Not to say cancer was not around it jus was not as common as it is now. This advertisement is using a man who appears to be a dentist, and he is promoting the cigarettes, making him the authoritative figure, and he is accrediting the cigarettes.

Well searching for other examples I found this Video about Mermaids at which also gives many examples of appeal to authority.

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Discovery Channel 1/2--Mermaids: The Body Found

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My name is Nicole Riggers I am going to be talking to you about so different reflags of pseudoscience and some reasons for belief on this padlet you will find in formation about:

·       Post 2:Appeal to authority red flag

·       Post 3: Confirmation bias red flag

·       Post 4: Ancient wisdom red flag

·       Post 5: Mystical energy red flag

·       Post 6: All natural red flag

·      Post 7: Emotional connection reason for belief

·       Post 8: Agenticity reason for belief

·      Post 9: Patternicity reason for belief
.      Post 10: word document

After reading my padlet I hope you gain a better understanding of some of these terms and are able to recognize science from pseudoscience. I also hope you enjoy the videos and extra links posted to help advance your understanding of red flags and reasons for belief.

If you want to add anything, or even make a comment feel free to the padlet should be open for everyone to post.