The shape of the world rewards a kind of curiosity that is willing to look really, really closely at ten boring things to find one worthy of More Examination Than Could Possibly Be Worthwhile, and returns to this sort of curiosity are probably increasing over time.
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Interestingly, fiction tends to say that anomalies are generally found by deeply disturbed people or long-time experts who are also generally some flavor of broken, which... doesn't really match who ends up doing the yeomen's work on these things?
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If there were actually a large reptile spotted off the coast of Japan there would be a subreddit within a day, and the moderators would probably have far more Wikipedia edits than most people but otherwise be pretty normal.
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The detection part is really important: I had very obsessive tendencies as a kid, but they were absorbed by the first thing to come along, like baseball statistics. There wasn't an ability to have a new stream of things to interrupt with more interesting stuff.
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Relevant XKCD (one of my favorites for how true it is): https://xkcd.com/915/ pic.twitter.com/D0zRr2OTI0
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