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What a crazy coincidence. I was actually just helping a friend troubleshoot his dead PC and I told him to test his ram, video card, motherboard, powersupply, in
by dntrkv 13y ago
What a crazy coincidence. I was actually just helping a friend troubleshoot his dead PC and I told him to test his ram, video card, motherboard, powersupply, in that order, and not to bother with the CPU since I have never had one fail on me. It ended up being the CPU that went out. I go on Hacker News a couple hours later and see this post. heh.
- ac29 13y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baader-Meinhof_phenomenon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baader-Meinhof_phenomenon
- josephagoss 13y agoIs this the same effect that when told to count yellow cars whilst driving, you end up noticing far more yellow cars than you thought were on road. Or how you notice how much more frequent your model of car is on the roads?
- olalonde 13y agoAlso when you learn a new word in a different language, it seems like suddenly everyone is using that word all the time.
- option_greek 13y agoAre there any explanations for this phenomenon. I keep experiencing it all the time :)
- ehsanu1 13y agoMe too, but I had always figured it as survivorship bias. That is, there are many such things that I newly hear of, but most of them don't get repeated mentions right way. The few of them that do catch my attention, and it seems like it happens a lot. But it actually happens only for a few of the many, many new things I hear about all the time. Similar to my friend who thought that every time he looked at a dead street lamp, it would turn on. :) Another possible factor is that I find I pay more attention to things I've recently learned about more closely when I come across them, but ignore them when I either know them very well or don't know them at all. I don't know if this is true for anyone else.
- coldtea 13y agoIt's, of course the second explanation. The first would include the Kardasians for example. But just because they get mentioned a lot, you don't feel anything strange about hearing about them a lot. Whereas the very essense of the phenomenon is that encoutering something multiple times seems strange to you.
- coldtea 13y agoWell, after you learned about (or focused on) something, you have an increased awareness of it mentioned, whereas other times in your life you can encounter it 2-3 times in the same day without paying much attention (just one more unknown word).
- tfinniga 13y agoMan, I just learned about the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon the other day, and now it seems to be popping up everywhere.