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We're halfway through season 4, what theories have been proven WRONG so far? - Reddit

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Fans collectively predicted season 4's twists and got it wrong — a perfect real-world case study in how overconfident crowds mistake noise for signal.

Wisdom of CrowdsFalsificationismAvailability HeuristicConfirmation Bias

Theory Briefing

  • Midseason, Reddit fans are auditing their own predictions — and finding most confident theories have already been disproven.
  • The crowd sourced its forecasts from early clues and trailers, illustrating how availability bias inflates confidence in vivid but misleading evidence.
  • Collective debunking in public threads mirrors the scientific falsification process — wrong theories get eliminated, but groupthink can slow that correction.