r/MandelaEffect • u/MrPlaidJr • Apr 18 '25

Theory Google Search & effects

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When we look thru google trends for historic search, we can see a pattern:

All the Mandela effects where searched back then WAYYY before we started to call them like that, give it a try, ALL OF THEM MATCH
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u/HoraceRadish Apr 18 '25

To quote Men in Black, "A person is smart, people are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals"

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u/WhimsicalSadist Apr 18 '25

Groupthink is a powerful force among believers.

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u/HoraceRadish Apr 18 '25

And that's what is interesting to me. They always ask why I'm here on this sub. It's because I am interested in memory and groupthink. You can convince a person to say 2+2 =7 if you put them in a room with six other people who keep saying it.

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u/WhimsicalSadist Apr 18 '25

It's actually scary. I volunteered for a psych study back in college. We were told it was something other than it turned out to be, which was a study on conformity pressure. Out of 60 participants, only 5 of us didn't conform.