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In fact, the term typical mind fallacy was born from aphantasia [1]: > Galton gave people some very detailed surveys, and found that some people did have menta
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In fact, the term typical mind fallacy was born from aphantasia [1]:
> Galton gave people some very detailed surveys, and found that some people did have mental imagery and others didn't. [...] Though another psychologist, Dr. Berman, did, at that time, come up with a name for the masking behavior, called the Typical Mind Fallacy: the human tendency to believe that one's own mental structure can be generalized to apply to everyone else's.
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Aphantasia/comments/1e5vbuu/mind_blown_but_not_in_the_way_you_think/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Aphantasia/comments/1e5vbuu/mind_bl...