The
frequency illusion is that once something has been noticed then every instance of that thing is noticed, leading to the belief it has a high
frequency of occurrence (a form of selection bias). ... The Baader–Meinhof phenomenon is sometimes conflated with
frequency illusion and the recency
illusion.Think of
bias as our tendency to generalize or group people or information. Each of us gets our
biases from a different place, so we
can't treat all
biases the same. In fact, there are even
biases in the way we approach
bias. ... And when used properly, many of our
biases can be used for
good.
