> Half of the stories on this topic seem to be merely the effect (I'm sure someone's coined a name for it) of seeing more of what you look for. e.g. Decide you

> Half of the stories on this topic seem to be merely the effect (I'm sure someone's coined a name for it) of seeing more of what you look for. e.g. Decide you are buying a Tesla and suddenly you notice there seem to be more Teslas on the roads... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases#Frequency_illusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases#Frequ... Frequency Illusion or Baader Meinhof phenomenon.