Baader-Meinhof? how so? (and yes, I know they were the first generation of the Red Army Faction)

	▲	wolfi1 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		there is a book in German called 'Der Baader-Meinhof-Komplex", so I was a little bit irritated, as someone who knows the history of the RAF
	▲	eranation 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Obligatory https://xkcd.com/1053/

TonyTrapp 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Frequency illusion, aka Baader–Meinhof phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion

	▲	GolfPopper an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Thank you! I ran into this a ton in college, and still do sometimes with new (to me) authors. I was confident about what was happening, but it's nice to know it's a documented phenomenon.