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Squeakiest wheel effect: loudest complainer rather than most-hurting person gets helped Similar effect in insight: of the people who get an insight, the one most surprised by it will make the biggest deal about it, claiming great personal originality, and will get credit for it.
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Hindenburg effect: One filmed zeppelin explosion kills an industry, a million unseen car crashes change nothing. Bright nuke effect: One atomic bomb killing half a city is an atrocity, a thousand smaller bombs killing most of the city is not worth noticing.