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Now, I definitely am biased, being a norwegian myself. But I see people mentioning themselves being norwegians everywhere here on HN. I don’t recall seeing half
by Jenz 6y ago
Now, I definitely am biased, being a norwegian myself. But I see people mentioning themselves being norwegians everywhere here on HN. I don’t recall seeing half as many people going around saying, «I’m a dane» or similar; this seems peculiar, Norway is small. I wonder if it actually is at it seems to me, or if I just miss these seemingly non–but—actually-not–non-existant remarks.
- jacobush 6y agoThey just like to point it out. :-D I suppose they are afraid someone would take them for a Swede, that'd be embarrassing.
- jlgaddis 6y ago> The frequency illusion is that once something has been noticed then every instance of that thing is noticed, leading to the belief it has a high frequency of occurrence (a form of Selection bias). The Baader–Meinhof phenomenon is the illusion where something that has recently come to one's attention suddenly seems to appear with improbable frequency shortly afterwards. The Baader–Meinhof phenomenon is sometimes conflated with frequency illusion and the recency illusion. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
- jessaustin 6y agoI'm not Norwegian, and I think you're right. Perhaps only the French mention their nationality on HN more than the Norwegians. Although, in fairness, even more common are EU people noting the consequences of EU rules that attempt to govern non-EU websites.