Re:What is AT&T doing at 1111340002?
by bruce343434 on Sunday November 07, 2021 @06:14AM
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It's probably that psychological effect where if you buy a red car, all you can see is red cars. How many times have you received a completely random, unrelated cold call?
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I think that's the the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon.
From Wikipedia: Frequency illusion, also known as the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon or frequency bias, is a cognitive bias in which, after noticing something for the first time, there is a tendency to notice it more often, leading someone to believe that it has a high frequency of occurrence – a form of selection bias.