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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Way too many people in this thread need to read up on cognitive biases. Frequency illusion would be a good place to start.

I once stopped in a gas station to get coffee, and instead of using brand names to refer to the sweetener, they used the colors: "yellow sweetener" for splenda, "blue sweetener" for equal, etc. It was weird to me, so I noticed. Later that day, I was on my flight and ordered coffee, and the flight attendant offered the sweetener using the same color coding instead of brand names. Weird, right? Then after I got to my destination, at the hotel, same thing!

The only logical conclusion isn't that our brains are wierd and stuff like this happens as a result of the way we categorize and remember information, but instead that I am in a Meta simulation and Zuckerberg is reading my thoughts.

[–] RushingSquirrel 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Confirmation bias is a big one too!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

True, that probably factors into this perception as well.