A coincidence is a happenstance—a simultaneous collision of two events—that has no special significance and obeys the laws of probability.

References

• Jung, Carl G. Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 1973.

See also

• anomaly
• anthropic principle
• cognition
• Coincidence Theory
• deja vu
• determinism
• extra-sensory perception
• intuition
• mathematical coincidence
• "Oh, Wow!" Syndrome
• pseudoscience
• psychic
• psychology
• superstition
• synchronicity

External links

• Unlikely Events and Coincidence (The Austin Society to Oppose Pseudoscience )
• The Power of Coincidence by David G. Myers (Skeptic)
• The Power of Coincidence by Jill Neimark (Psychology Today)