Why The Frequency Illusion Is Everywhere Now

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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.

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- Frequency Illusion: a cognitive bias where a recently learned or noticed phenomenon seems to appear more frequently than it actually does.

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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

Zwicky, Arnold. “Language Log: Just between Dr. Language and I.” Itre.cis.upenn.edu, itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002386.html