"Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon" is evidently also known as frequency illusion. Wikipedia defines it as: illusion in which a word, a name or other thing that has rec

"Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon" is evidently also known as frequency illusion. Wikipedia defines it as: illusion in which a word, a name or other thing that has recently come to one's attention suddenly seems to appear with improbable frequency shortly afterwards http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases#Frequency_illusion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases#Freque...