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"Random Facts For Now Though There Will Be More To Come"
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"Blue car syndrome" or "frequency illusion"
It's the phenomenon where one happens across some obscure piece of information, often an unfamiliar word or name, and soon afterwards starts encountering that same piece of information again, often repeatedly.
The term "frequency illusion" was coined by stanford linguistics professor Arnold Zwicky in 2006 to describe the syndrome in which one encounters a concept of thing and it suddenly starts to crop up everywhere. Its caused by two psychological processes.
-The first is...
"Blue car syndrome" or "frequency illusion"
It's the phenomenon where one happens across some obscure piece of information, often an unfamiliar word or name, and soon afterwards starts encountering that same piece of information again, often repeatedly.
The term "frequency illusion" was coined by stanford linguistics professor Arnold Zwicky in 2006 to describe the syndrome in which one encounters a concept of thing and it suddenly starts to crop up everywhere. Its caused by two psychological processes.
-The first is...
