And I thought it was just the Baader, Browder, Bauer phenomenon...

Fred Bauder

> On 8 March 2014 18:04, Brian J Mingus <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> The reason the name stuck is that "Baader-Meinhof" is a weird name, and
>> one
>> would not expect to see it multiple times independently in short
>> succession.
>> Hence the name "Baader-Meinhof phenomenon" (which is also the name of a
>> book) is analogous to onomatopoeia in that both represent the thing
>> they are
>> describing in some way - this is also similar to homoiconicity. It's a
>> perfect name - much better than "frequency illusion" - and a
>> substantial
>> number of people now know it by this name, in part due to its
>> longstanding
>> and interesting history of existence on Wikipedia, which has advertised
>> it
>> to hundreds of thousands of people and generated tens of thousands of
>> websites which use it by that name.
>> The article should clearly stay!
>
>
> Now you just need sources to this effect. There's always writing them ...
>
>
> - d.
>
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