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Have you ever said "That's odd, I just learned about this obscure fact/company/place/concept the other day and now it popped up again". That's the Baader-Meinho
by acangiano 17y ago
Have you ever said "That's odd, I just learned about this obscure fact/company/place/concept the other day and now it popped up again". That's the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon. So I increased the counter of my Baader-Meinhof occurrences. By the way, you'll hear about this again in a few days. :)
- gfodor 17y agoThat's odd, I just learned about the Baader-Meinhof pehnomenon the other day, and here it is coming up again. Bizarre.
- Tichy 17y agoWhere does the name come from? Baader-Meinhof is usually associated with terrorism in Germany...
- acangiano 17y agoIt's uncertain, but it's likely that whoever came up with the name, had one such episode while learning about the terrorist group.
- Hexstream 17y agoOh please. It only looks odd because you can't notice the millions of times it didn't happen. It's in the same class as confirmation bias, survivor bias, etc.
- acangiano 17y agoOf course it only looks odd. There is no magic to it.