Why The Frequency Illusion Is Everywhere Now

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Want to sponsor a MinuteEarth video? Email us at minuteearth@gmail.com This is a story about attention, memory, and headless goat hockey, which is a totally real sport played on horseback with a goat carcass standing in for a ball. It's known by many names throughout central asia, but I first encountered it as "buzkashi". It's wild, and I swear it is relevant. LEARN MORE ************** To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: - Frequency Illusion: a cognitive bias where a recently learned or noticed phenomenon seems to appear more frequently than it actually does. SUPPORT MINUTEEARTH ************************** If you like what we do, you can help us!: - Become our patron: https://patreon.com/MinuteEarth - Our merch: http://dftba.com/minuteearth - Our book: https://minuteearth.com/books - Sign up to our newsletter: http://news.minuteearth.com - Share this video with your friends and family - Leave us a comment (we read them!) CREDITS ********* Cameron Duke | Script Writer, Narrator and Director Arcadi Garcia i Rius | Illustration, Video Editing and Animation Nathaniel Schroeder | Music MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info OUR STAFF ************ Lizah van der Aart • Sarah Berman • Cameron Duke Arcadi Garcia i Rius • David Goldenberg • Melissa Hayes Alex Reich • Henry Reich • Peter Reich Ever Salazar • Leonardo Souza • Kate Yoshida OUR LINKS ************ Youtube | https://youtube.com/MinuteEarth TikTok | https://tiktok.com/@minuteearth Twitter | https://twitter.com/MinuteEarth Instagram | https://instagram.com/minute_earth Facebook | https://facebook.com/Minuteearth Website | https://minuteearth.com Apple Podcasts| https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/minuteearth/id649211176 REFERENCES ************** Purohit, Kush. “The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon in Radiology.” Academic Radiology, Feb. 2019, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acra.2019.01.025 Rodriguez, Alicita, and University Communications. “What Is the Frequency Illusion?” CU Denver News, 24 Sept. 2019, news.ucdenver.edu/what-is-the-frequency-illusion/ The Economist. “The Incredible Story of Afghanistan’s Exiled Women’s Cricket Team.” The Economist, 19 Dec. 2024, www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2024/12/19/the-incredible-story-of-afghanistans-exiled-womens-cricket-team van der Meulen, Marten. “Are We Indeed so Illuded? Recency and Frequency Illusions in Dutch Prescriptivism.” Languages, vol. 7, no. 1, 22 Feb. 2022, p. 42, https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7010042 Zwicky, Arnold. “Language Log: Just between Dr. Language and I.” Itre.cis.upenn.edu, itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002386.html