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I just ran across this concept of 'Change Blindness' I think it is pretty important and should be added to our usage and understanding of 'Normalcy Bias'.

For me it explains how I can be 'blind-sided' by something that wasn't there and now is 'there' and vice versa. Now think about that in our normal everyday lives, changes happen so quickly that we miss most of them because our brains made a snap decision that the change wasn't immediately important to our daily lives and ignored the change.

And that my FRiends can come back to 'Bite us in the Butts' when seconds and minutes count in recognizing situations and events that will affect us, possibly very adversely.

1 posted on 07/24/2014 5:58:59 AM PDT by The Working Man
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To: Kartographer; OneWingedShark

Ping


2 posted on 07/24/2014 5:59:46 AM PDT by The Working Man
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To: The Working Man

People blind all their life, if they gain vision for the first time can’t immediately interpret what they see.


3 posted on 07/24/2014 6:02:31 AM PDT by AU72
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To: The Working Man

In a psychological sense it’s why people don’t realize a war is coming, or that Obama is governing as a radical leftist.


4 posted on 07/24/2014 6:08:44 AM PDT by Williams
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To: The Working Man

I am shocked on nearly a daily basis in the changes to the society around me that it seems nearly no one else even notices.

The changes are so profound over the last few decades that I honestly feel that I am now living in an entirely different country with a handful of people from where I used to live long ago here with me also.


5 posted on 07/24/2014 6:10:11 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: The Working Man

‘Change Blindness’

Right... that is what happens when “O” supporters find that all the freebies in his ‘Hope and Change’ scam are really NOT free!


6 posted on 07/24/2014 6:13:52 AM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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To: The Working Man; appalachian_dweller; OldPossum; DuncanWaring; VirginiaMom; CodeToad; goosie; ...

Preppers’ PING!!

Hat tip to Workingman for the heads-up!!


7 posted on 07/24/2014 6:20:37 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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