i'd say "all of the above"Which group does everyone think christofeara fall into?
A) patternicity, or a tendency to find meaningful patterns in random noise;
B)agenticity, or the bent to believe the world is controlled by invisible intentional agent;
C) confirmation bias, or the seeking and finding of confirmatory evidence for what we already believe;
or;
D) hindsight bias, or tailoring after-the-fact explanations to what we already know happened."
(from (Four reasons why people believe in conspiracy theories - SmartPlanet )
I tend to think he falls into the "B" category myself.......