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Perhaps too meta, but I wonder, what fraction of modern-day uses of Baader and Meinhof's eponym refer not to the Red Army Faction, but instead to the frequency
by mgdlbp 4y ago
Perhaps too meta, but I wonder, what fraction of modern-day uses of Baader and Meinhof's eponym refer not to the Red Army Faction, but instead to the frequency illusion as named after ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baader-Meinhof_phenomenon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baader-Meinhof_phenomenon
Apparently, that's their legacy, as far as HN comments go:
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=meinhof&type=all&sort=byDate&dateRange=custom&dateStart=-1111950000&dateEnd=1652860862 https://hn.algolia.com/?query=meinhof&type=all&sort=byDate&d...
Edit: But we arrive at a fixed point in eponymy with the phenomenon, since repeatedly hearing about either it or the group is only an example of it in action:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26799026 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26799026