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** a politician wanting to exaggerate a ''rise'' in housing starts might select 2009 as the benchmark date for 2021 rates (thus 2021 would have a higher rate of housing starts than 2009) | ** a politician wanting to exaggerate a ''rise'' in housing starts might select 2009 as the benchmark date for 2021 rates (thus 2021 would have a higher rate of housing starts than 2009) | ||
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=== Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon / Frequency Illusion/ New Car Syndrome === | |||
* the phenomenon in which upon buying a new car, one all of a sudden sees other cars of the same model or color that one didn't notice before | |||
* first identified as the "Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon" following an internet message board user who mentioned the name of the German terrorist organization, Baader-Meinhof, realized that he started seeing numerous references to the group, even though he had never noticed it before | |||
* the phenomenon was later labeled "frequency illusion," in reference to the tendency to notice things only after noticing it for the first time, which leads to the assumption that the frequency of that thing is greater than it really is | |||
** i.e., it was always there | |||
** but the person didn't notice until first experiencing or observing it | |||
* thus the "new car syndrome" | |||
=== Correlation is not causation === | === Correlation is not causation === | ||