It’s a type of frequency illusion, I think, where you see meaning in perfectly normal coincidences.
No.
That’s a nice way of putting it. Mine was going to be a lot more profane.
Sharing a mildly humorous anecdote != finding undue meaning in something
No, I meant that I was the one who though that it was odd that we both knew dogs named Sandy.
It’s a coincidence.
An example of a kind of cognitive bias regarding nominal coincidence would be when you feel animosity toward someone that you don’t know because they have the same name as an ex, enemy, or someone you dislike, or if you feel an affinity toward someone because they have the same name as a family member, friend, or someone you admire.
“Barack Hussein Obama” would be another example - an African first and last name, and an Arabic middle name. That’s the textbook example of cognitive bias via nominal association. That’s stereotype bias. There are probably some guys out there named ‘Osama’, and they might be nice guys, but there are a lot of conservative types who are going to hate those guys because of their name.
Those kinds of things are cognitive bias. Noting that someone has a dog with the same name as yours isn’t frequency illusion. If you make any assumptions about Kenny’s character because of his dog’s name, that would be cognitive bias, but not frequency illusion. If you start to think that most dogs must be named Sandy, then that would be frequency illusion.
That makes sense. Honestly, I was just looking it up on Wikipedia, which gives a fairly broad definition of it: “A cognitive bias is a pattern of deviation in judgment that occurs in particular situations, which may sometimes lead to perceptual distortion, inaccurate judgment, illogical interpretation, or what is broadly called irrationality”, which is what I was going off of.
I’ll stop trying to play armchair psychologist now.
How did you think you were being irrational? Did you have a thought that you didn’t share in your comment?
I just heard that someone had a dog named Sandy, and thought “hey, that’s a funny coincidence.” So that made me think of baader-meinhoff phenomenon, which I googled, and then I made a comment in passing using some big words that caught my eye.
I derive great enjoyment from being superfluously verbose.
It’s not the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, it’s a coincidence. If you start noticing the word Sandy a lot in the next week or so, that’s the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon.
Like I said, it just made me think of it. I don’t really understand these kinds of things, I just use Wikipedia a lot.
Finally getting around to watching Dexter.
Damn good show.
eh
you don’t like dexter ?
I’m at work! I wonder if my boss has power, or any way of contacting me. I will have to call him when 8:00 rolls around…
So I went to school in a suit today.
Dress suit or HEV suit?
Laundry day?
Dress suit, sorry to disappoint.
so you don’t know what you’re saying
All I wanted was to use big words.