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(not native english speaker) Two times in one day I read the term doofus which I don't remember having encountered before. Is this word just trending recently
by doe88 8y ago
(not native english speaker)
Two times in one day I read the term doofus which I don't remember having encountered before. Is this word just trending recently or was it always frequently been used before?
- majewsky 8y ago> just trending recently No. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=doofus https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=d... But I know where you're coming from. I have the same deja-vu experience quite often, where I run across some word or topic on multiple (independent) occasions within one day without ever having heard it before. I guess our brains are just biased to notice such situations, whereas encountering a novel word/thing/concept only once occurs too often and thus is boring on its own.
- kjeetgill 8y agoThe term is Baader-Meinhof phenomenon of Frequency Illusion. see: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion