Re: Hearing a word the first time in your life.
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Anyway, the phenomenon described in OP (which I now know is called "confirmation bias" and will probably hear that term several times in the near future) exists in other forms of expression besides individual words...
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What I find satisfying about the confirmation bias is that once you know it exists, you spot lots of situations where it exists, and know what mechanism caused both that situation and your recognition of it. Ideas that describe lots of things AND themselves are great.
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