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Seward Park Jogger Attacked

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Tawnos

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skiingislife725 said:
Last thing I want to say in this novel is that I find it silly that now she's going to avoid one certain trail, but I'm assuming that all other trails are fair game for her to run? Someone was just talking about this psychological phenomenon the other day. That is, thinking something is more likely to happen because it sticks out in your mind. The Forza Coffee Shop massacre is a prime example of it. And it's the same thing that happened at Crystal Mt. when an avalanche occurred on a certain slope and someone got buried and now that slope has never been reopened. But slopes right by that one have avalanches all the time!
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That was me. It's called the misleading vividness or spotlight fallacy.
 
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Grapeshot said:
Psychology 101 - If you do not think about it, it ceases to exist for you. It is the "out of sight, out of mind" thing to the extreme.

Same for businesses and public entities - remove the source of the tragedy from the public's mind and it will cease to be an issue.
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Or replace it with a new one...it's called the news cycle....or if they have more time, and want to take it to a higher level as an issue, it's called the "Overton Window"
 
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jt59 said:
Or replace it with a new one...it's called the news cycle....or if they have more time, and want to take it to a higher level as an issue, it's called the "Overton Window"
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Some people approach an issue using variations of the "window".

"Other formulations of the process created after Overton's death add the concept of moving the window, such as deliberately promoting ideas even less acceptable than the previous "outer fringe" ideas, with the intention of making the current fringe ideas acceptable by comparison (This might be a form of the “Door-in-the-face technique" of persuasion.)."

Could this be the intent of those who go seeking confrontation???
 
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