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> 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...
by 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