Imagine as if you're thinking about a number between 1 and 10 million. You go to a restaurant and when you get the receipt, you look at the order number and it ends up being exactly the number you were thinking of. As spooky as this might seem, many would reasonably say that this is probably just coincidence. After all, any number of events related to that number would have been just as meaningful. Secondly, given the number of people in the world, and limitless number of events, a connection between that number you're thinking of and some other event connecting to that number may have been bound to happen.

But now imagine the same scenario except that before you get the order number back, you are aware of the fact that order numbers are generated randomly between 1 and 10 million. You wonder if the order number will end up being the same as the number you're thinking of. And voila, it does. In this case, I would wager that people would be much, much more willing to think something shady is going on than in the former case. Is this reasonable?