"Last season crops grew better on that field after the cows were allowed to grazed on it, but the field where we kept out the cows was as bad as always. Let's try letting cows graze on both fields."

"What did we say about magical thinking?"

"Sorry dad. Let's keep the cows off the field like we always did."

If people were that good at noticing patterns, it wouldn't have taken Cortez arriving on the soil of the New World in order to bring the wheel to its inhabitants, who had been here 14,000 years and produced zero wheels.

Then with a little scientific method, you soon realize storms and dogs are uncorrelated. Or you find out a drug seems to work even if you can't fully explain why.