There is something similar in Daniel Kahneman's book Thinking, Fast and Slow. In my words, 1) The sender asks "how many X are there" (assuming that the recipie

There is something similar in Daniel Kahneman's book Thinking, Fast and Slow. In my words, 1) The sender asks "how many X are there" (assuming that the recipient also knows that the answer is a large quantity). The recipient's mind indirectly loads and caches the concept of a large quantity. 2) The sender changes the "discussion point" to something different that also involves a quantity, however, because the original impression of the first quantity lingers, their perception may now be skewed. Link to one such example: Studying Machine Intelligence with Been Kim - #571 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8SuqeH_Mg0&t=755s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8SuqeH_Mg0&t=755s