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The Firehouse Effect
When cliques, of people, with a lot of time to chat, start to believe in things that would seem crazy to the wider population. So named after an observation of firemen who would spend a lot of time talking between fires.
My intro to this was from Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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