Human perception is a tricky thing. It’s perception that allows us to see patterns, fill in gaps and interpret things. Yet, it’s the same mechanism that sets our perception into a specific way of perceiving it. So, we can in a sense be tricked into believing something is X, when in reality, it’s Y.
The same applies to a topic AskRedditors were recently discussing, and that is What is far more rare than people realize? Folks recall statistical, temporal and other convictions that aren’t entirely or at all that true. And it’s perception and assumption that has led us to believe otherwise.
Scroll down, take a gander at what folks had to say and why not join the conversation!
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#1
Critical thinking skills.
hstarbird11 , Ariel Paredes Report
Final score: 257points 
Booker Booker Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 3 weeks ago Report
I’ve been working with people who appear to shun critical thinking skills and have noticed there are at least two advantages to this practice: 1) It allows them to be nonaccountable when something turns sideways. Things don’t improve, but that’s not their problem either. 2) If things don’t work out at all, they’re the ones that point fingers, saying they knew it wasn’t going to work out. If asked why they didn’t say something, they say so-and-so was handling it. With good administrative leadership, this doesn’t happen. When the supervisors do the same thing to avoid becoming accountable, the ones that exercise their critical thinking skills become targets.
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Good, honest friends who don’t have ulterior motives. The ones that genuinely enjoy your company and friendship. Hold onto them!!!
ZealousidealWealth88 , mododeolhar Report
Final score: 250points 
Lavendar rose Lavendar rose Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 weeks ago Report
Which is why my best friends a my animals.
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We have a male tortoiseshell cat. Cat people tend to know they’re quite rare but others probably don’t.
Tacoma__Crow , Huy Phan Report
Final score: 250points 
JB JB Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 weeks ago Report
So rare! To the point whenever I see a tortie or calico I automatically think she’s a girl. I’ve heard/read that the very few males are sterile. Yes, I’m a cat person.
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Absolute silence and being in a place where no man made light exists.
whiskey_formymen , James Wheeler Report
Final score: 238points 
Ron Man Ron Man Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 weeks ago Report
I guess this depends where you live. Get out of the city. Find a forest.
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Trees.
We’re the only planet that we know that has them.
Thus making them rarer than diamonds in the universe.
Agitated_Lychee_8133 , James Wheeler Report
Final score: 234points 
RabidChild RabidChild Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 weeks ago Report
This dawned on me recently. I never thought about how so many people take all the trees out of their living areas cuz they’re messy or a pain to mow around. It is now my mission to start plating trees any and everywhere I can. Especially fruit and nut trees!!
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Man to man compliments I remember about my 7th grade year. It was probably 1994. Me and my friends started telling each other we love you man. Being good friends with a other dude and telling them you love them. That is more rare then anything. We got obnoxious. We just kept telling each other bro I love you. No bro I love you more. No bro your the f*****g man more then me. It was so silly, but still today I think about it and smile. I still miss and love my boys. I try to compliment men and tell them they are killing it s much as I can. Any compliment is amazing. I usually do some dumb s**t like. Damn bro your killing it.
StIdes-and-a-swisher , LinkedIn Sales Navigator Report
Final score: 234points Donald Donald Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 weeks ago Report
I love all my fellow Pandas but big shout out to all my fellas out there. Much love.
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Clean water.
My son and I have been discussing this lately. He is a chemical engineer and works exclusively with water. Many of the studies he has been published on also have to do with clean water and forever chemicals. Water is a huge issue that is becoming bigger everyday and normal people are forgetting about it.
Flint Michigan is in year 9!
No-Fishing5325 , Lisa Fotios Report
Final score: 218points Ron Man Ron Man Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 weeks ago Report
Yeah, this is very true on a global scale. We have tons of water, but not all of it is good for humans in its current form.
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People who have the patience and desire to accommodate the needs of the disabled.
Ask me how I know. 🙁
Schwarzes__Loch , Ivan Samkov Report
Final score: 209points Ron Man Ron Man Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 weeks ago Report
Patience and desire to accommodate anyone, really. I think the disabled just feel it worse.
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Northern lights.
The amount of people I’ve heard say:
“We’ve come all this way, what time do they come on?” Is staggering.
The_Town_of_Canada , stein egil liland Report
Final score: 201points WindySwede WindySwede Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 3 weeks ago Report
“They start at 23:09 tonight, we just received a mail from the northern lights administrator in the Sun” 🥬♻️🐍🤑
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Green eyes make up just two percent of the global population.
New-Tomorrow-4309 , Jan Krnc Report
Final score: 191points 
OneHappyPuppy OneHappyPuppy Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 weeks ago Report
My husband and I have green eyes. So does my father. Statistically rare maybe, but in some places more common than others
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Common sense.
Final score: 183points 
Kathryn Baylis Kathryn Baylis Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 weeks ago Report
Oh boy, is this a big one these days. Goes hand in hand with the other entry about critical thinking.
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Deaths from nuclear power.
Pollution from coal power kills more people *every day* than nuclear power has in its entire history.
fractiousrhubarb , Pixabay Report
Final score: 177points Ron Man Ron Man Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 weeks ago Report
Very true. Also has had many more disastrous accidents. 1 Chernobyl versus many underground coal fires still burning all over the globe.
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An honest politician.
rebeccaparker2000 , Andrea Piacquadio Report
Final score: 169points Kathryn Baylis Kathryn Baylis Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 weeks ago Report
That is almost an oxymoron. I think some go into politics to try and help make a difference. But the rest are only in it for themselves, for money, for power, to become famous—-or infamous—-but not at all for their constituents. They could care less if their constituents are starving, as long as they can order steak in DC.
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Solid brown fur cats, apparently it’s some kind of recessive gene in them.
Final score: 165points 
Craftsman 64 Craftsman 64 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 weeks ago Report
So rare that you couldn’t come up with a picture of one?
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Humility and an understanding that we’re sometimes the victim and sometimes the perpetrator. No one is ever just one or the other.
Fitandfriendlydude , Ben White Report
Final score: 156points 
AtMostTheFabulist AtMostTheFabulist Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 weeks ago Report
Some days you are the bug, some days the windshield.
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Affordable housing.
PMmeYourCattleDog , Oleksandr P Report
Final score: 145points 
KiwiTriviaKween (She/Her) KiwiTriviaKween (She/Her) Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 weeks ago Report
This is a big problem in NZ I’m sad to say.
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People who remain friends with you once you leave school.
GrockleKaug , Elina Fairytale Report
Final score: 136points 
hitex hitex Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 weeks ago Report
I’ve got 1!
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Empathy. When people want to and are able to understand the experience of another human being, without projection of own ideas and experiences onto others.
FoxMeetsDear , Rafael Barros Report
Final score: 132points 
Marnie Marnie Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 weeks ago Report
Empathy is definitely not rare. Empathy is a normal human trait. Lacking empathy is a criterion of a few mental disorders.
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Kids getting kidnapped by random strangers in public. My parents always acted like every adult on the street was a potential abductor and that child kidnapping was rampant, but I never knew anyone who actually got kidnapped and the statistics really don’t back up their level of anxiety. I’m in my mid-twenties now, and they still act like I’m gonna get attacked by some rando on the street at any moment. Based on personal experience and statistical evidence, I am much more afraid of violence from those I am close to than I am of strangers.
HarlowLeChat , cottonbro studio Report
Final score: 129points WindySwede WindySwede Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 3 weeks ago Report
The “Stranger danger” was not such a good campaign…
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Bit of peace and freaking quiet.
Winoforevr1 , Anna Shvets Report
Final score: 126points El Cucuy El Cucuy Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 weeks ago Report
My favorite response when people ask me what I want for Christmas: ” I want two things. Peace. And quiet.” 😀
36 36points reply View More Replies… #21
People giving out [illegal substances] with Halloween candy.
Cassarole08 , Kristina Paukshtite Report
Final score: 121points 
Joshua David Joshua David Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 weeks ago Report
When I was a drug user in my 20s (45 now), I’d always laugh about this. I paid too good of money to be giving it out for free. Really though.
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People in genuinely happy, healthy, well adjusted relationships.
PhillipTopical , Josh Willink Report
Final score: 120points 
Rens Rens Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 weeks ago Report
I lost my partner in January, we were together for almost three years. It was the best relationship either of us had ever had. I have only good memories, except for when he suffered a cardiac arrest and died right in front of me. We had many lively discussions and debates; we enjoyed time together and apart; we shared everything, supported each other emotionally, were loving, affectionate and caring. It was the first healthy relationship we had. I miss him every second of every day, but I am so glad that I got to spend that time with him
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The time that you have with your close ones before it passes away.
Dapper_Candidate_642 , Andrea Piacquadio Report
Final score: 118points 
KnightOwl KnightOwl Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 weeks ago Report
My bf passed away 6 weeks ago and I can’t help going over our time together and wishing I could go back and do some things differently. I wish I’d told him I loved him more and prioritised our relationship more than I did. After 13yrs together I just took it for granted that he’d always be around and then he suddenly just dropped dead.
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Helium.
_hootyowlscissors , Michaela Pereckas Report
Final score: 114points 
Richard Ross Richard Ross Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 weeks ago Report
I can’t believe they waste this precious gas in party balloons 🤔
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Serial killers.
Final score: 109points Ron Man Ron Man Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 weeks ago Report
That actually depends where you live.
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A stable, loving, peaceful domestic life.
reginapinsley , Monstera Production Report
Final score: 106points Ron Man Ron Man Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 weeks ago
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Self-awareness.
Final score: 83points 
Nikki Sevven Nikki Sevven Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 weeks ago Report
And situational awareness. I went grocery shopping yesterday. Twice I had to say “excuse me” to someone blocking the entire aisle with their cart and body…both times AFTER they had looked directly at me, then continued browsing. As always, the store’s exit was partially blocked by a herd of half-sized carts left there by selfish shoppers too lazy and entitled to walk a few meters.
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Blimps. I live in northeast Ohio near the Goodyear hangar. We see them all the time. I had to pull up a list, that northeast Ohio has 3 out of 4 operating Goodyear blimps named Wingfoot 1 2 and 3; Only maybe 12 are operating anywhere in the world, with a total of 25 existing at all. But we see them all the time at Wingfoot lake disc golf course. Edit: Helium filled semi-rigid airships.
Worried_Place_917 , Peter Zulauf Report
Final score: 73points Pedantic Panda Pedantic Panda Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 weeks ago Report
Probably because Helium is so rare.
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Having loving and supportive parents and a good home life growing up.
I think this Stereotype is pushed a lot by Hollywood and TV, because writers tend to be people who’s creativity was nurtured by their supportive parents and they write what they know.
It’s why almost every family on TV lives in a picturesque suburbia, maybe with a pool, two loving parents and a comfortable life.
IAmTheBornReborn , Agung Pandit Wiguna Report
Final score: 73points Kathryn Baylis Kathryn Baylis Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 weeks ago Report
Yes and no. Some people who write for a living came from s****y and totally unsupportive families, but rose above it. So maybe their portrayal of the stereotypical happy family is the family they always wished they’d had themselves. Their fantasy dream family who they turned to in their sleep to help them get through the s**t from their real families. They’re also the writers who are able to accurately portray s****y families and s****y people if those types of characters are necessary for the storyline. The best writers write about what they know. If you’ve been coddled and had the perfect dream life as a child, then you’ve never been exposed to s****y people, so couldn’t write about them very accurately.
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The percentage of people with eating disorders that are underweight (5% of suffers).
Planegirlie , Elena Leya Report
Final score: 63points Hamad§ Hamad§ Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 weeks ago Report
I struggled with a eating disorder when I was younger . I always felt i was fat when I could feel by ribs underneath my shirt. Luckily I’m better now and I learned that no body looks the same and we are all beautiful.
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