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by pwenzel 665 days ago
I'm amazed how many NYC addresses have "666" in them!
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I swear 666 and 420 are the most common street addresses in the city
I feel like there's a bias for this, where you likely wouldn't register seeing a mundane number a bunch (like say, 378), but 666 and 420 would stick out even once, so you'll remember all the other times you've seen them. From googling though, I'm having trouble finding a name for this that I'm familiar with; the best I can find seems to be salience bias[1], but I'm not sure if that's what I was thinking of; I've certainly never heard of it before.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salience_(neuroscience)#Salien...