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Of course this is even more off-topic, but I wanted you to know that there is a name for that. It is the Baader Meinhof Phenomenon[0] or frequency illusion[1].
by fnordian_slip 8y ago
Of course this is even more off-topic, but I wanted you to know that there is a name for that.
It is the Baader Meinhof Phenomenon[0] or frequency illusion[1].
[0]:https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Baader-Meinhof_phenomenon https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Baader-Meinhof_phenomenon
[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases#Frequency_illusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases#Frequ...
- pbhjpbhj 8y agoI don't think they're describing Baader-Meinhof illusion, instead it sound like the phenomenon I know as "Feynman's grandmother" whereby we credit a coincidence with a degree of magic because we fail to notice the frequency compared to non-coincidences. The phenomenon plays out something like this: If you recall all the times you read something, and the subsequent article has no unexpected relationship in key concepts then you'll see it's just a normal statistical occurrence rather than something spooky and notable.
- c3534l 8y agoI think he's actually describing a much deeper phenomenon called a "coincidence" in which two things occur which are related in some way other than by causality. This strange phenomena is usually attributed to a concept known by the phrase "chance" which is deeply rooted in probability theory, but top scienticians and psychological probability computationists are still studying this mysterious phenomenon.
- pbhjpbhj 8y ago^_^