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offtopic: The word Baader Meinhof needs to be retried. Besides reminding us of terrorists and being pseudo-intellectual, it wastes time and attention (and co2)
by apples_oranges 6y ago
offtopic: The word Baader Meinhof needs to be retried. Besides reminding us of terrorists and being pseudo-intellectual, it wastes time and attention (and co2) by having to google its meaning. The better terms, "Frequency illusion" or "selective attention bias", however are quite self explanatory.
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- StrictDabbler 6y agoI did a research paper on Baader Meinhof long before the phenomenon came to my attention. It was two years after that paper before I came across any other mentions of them. The very next time anybody mentioned them to me it was in the frequency context and I'd had exactly the opposite experience of the "phenomenon." No frequency illusion at all. I have no idea why we'd name a phenomenon after a thing that made some guy have a certain feeling this one time. It's a moronic name.