I thought there should be a name for this phenomenon, so I googled some phrase trying to explain this and found the term Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon. I don’t understand why I can’t find any reference to this in Gale Virtual Reference Library or in LionSearch. I tried the term frequency illusion, referred to in the web article, but nothing came up for that either.

I would think there would be a psychological term for this phenomenon, but I can’t find it!

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Among the issues they came up with were:

• price competition
• Design Build (which seems like a good multi-sided issue)
• role of research in the future of civil engineering
• privatization
• nonengineers in engineering positions in government and private practice

This article makes a good point: even though students today have a vast amount of information at their disposal, finding what they need has become more difficult. I see a connection between the ideas presented in this article and “When Choice is Demotivating: Can One Desire Too Much of a Good Thing.”

Providing students with a list of articles, including the two above, and having them choose 2 to make a connection between, could be an interesting research assignment.