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by johnchristopher 2483 days ago
Frequency illusion or Baader–Meinhof effect: The 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 (not to be confused with the recency illusion or selection bias).[51] This illusion is sometimes referred to as the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon.[52]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases

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