: This "illusory consensus" helps explain how misinformation spreads; repetition alone can make an idea feel like "common knowledge," leading individuals to overestimate how much of the population actually agrees with it. Other Technical References
: The study found that simply hearing a claim multiple times makes people believe that a wider consensus exists for that claim, even if they only heard it from a single source. 124533
: Traditional time series models often struggle with "chaotic" data—systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions (the "butterfly effect") and appear random but are governed by underlying patterns. : This "illusory consensus" helps explain how misinformation
: By using chaos-based feature extraction before feeding data into neural networks, the accuracy of long-term predictions in complex fields like economics, weather, and engineering is significantly improved. 2. The Illusory Consensus Effect : By using chaos-based feature extraction before feeding
Another major study under this identifier, "An Illusory Consensus Effect: The Mere Repetition of Information Increases Perceptions of Consensus," was published in Collabra: Psychology (Article 124533 ).