136 - Prevalence Induced Concept Change
You Are Not So Smart
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Concept Crawl
In the military, this is called mission creep. In technology and software development they call it feature creep. A psychologist named Nick Haslam wrote a paper that introduced another form of this phenomenon he called concept creep. The boundaries of concepts creep outward over time, the more familiar we become with them. And they begin to include a broader range of examples as we begin to notice the signals in the noise.
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