I know that being primed to notice something creates confirmation bias in favor of noticing it but to quote Q: how much before it is mathematically impossible?
One would obviously expect some numbers to occur more frequently than others, numbers like 1-2-3-5-10-50 etc. but once you get outside of that the occurrence of any number will pretty much only be mentioned as frequently as its use to define someones age would suggest.
Now there is the number 17, a fairly random number and aside from age mentions about as likely to be mentioned as any other number that doesn't fit in the group of most frequently used numbers.
And the use of that number is so frequent in comparison to any other number as to simply be mathematically impossible to ascribe to random chance, just by random number use alone(locker 17 in a morgue for instance or as a door/street number). then there are the mentions where it is more significant than that(like section 17 being where the culling of people is set on the station in the series 'The 100'
It is SO FREQUENT that you can't dismiss this as simple confirmation bias, as far as random numbers mentioned/used in TV series it is BY FAR the most used number, I mean any other number isn't even close to the frequency 17 is used/mentioned.
Start noticing number mentions/use in ways that are significant and things start getting silly real quick as it's placing is obviously to be noticed, 17.000 lines of code(consciousness code in 'Humans'), it is in some significant way used in at least half of all major series and not even close to any other number used in frequency.
It is literally used in every other TV series in some significant and very noticeable way...
So chime in, where have any of you recently noticed this number in a TV series?
I can pretty much guarantee that it will be used in some significant way in 1 or more series made in the last decade or two that anyone have watched.
I'm very much aware of this, which I sorta made a point out of in my post and that sorta makes it obvious that my awareness of it makes me somewhat less susceptible to it and me mentioning it in my post is certainly an even better indication of me being mindful of this as I wrote what I wrote.
Noticing something more often is one thing, it being there to be noticed at a frequency that is way beyond any other number and used in a front and center kind of way so that it is more noticeable cant be attributed to any frequency illusion or brain propensity towards confirmation bias.
The problem is people pull this shit out as a quick and easy way to explain something away so that they don't have to give it and real thought, and this is the one case where it isn't warranted.
"Walker" Rule Number 17 (TV Episode 2021) - IMDb
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14102608/
Louie Season 3 - Pam even says it is 2017. 17 pops when they go see the meteor shower
The new 2021 TV series "Resident Alien" - it's in about half the episodes, "Why do you have 17 gallons of milk in the fridge"......."60 mins to countdown....30 mins to countdown.....17 mins to countdown" and many more.
i'm convinced the script writer's put it in on purpose coz they know about Q, doesn't mean they're on our side, they could be trying to deceive us.
I'm glad you brought this up, OP. I've been wondering the same thing myself.
I agree with BasedBored that there can be a certain confirmation bias about this, but still....???
I've been wondering whether this number has more meaning beyond just Q = 17. Did Q choose this number for a reason?? Does the number 17 mean something to the DS? Is it being used for comms? I've noticed this number a lot in MSM news articles.
Easy way of checking the frequency is to just make a number of columns 1 for each number up to 19(and some space to note down numbers outside of it(21-37 etc etc) and putting a mark in a column every time you see some derivation of any of the numbers(2=20=200=20000/17=1700=17000 etc)
It should quickly become apparent that something is beyond simple statistical chance(would make a couple of charts and keep one for MSM and one for entertainment(movies/TV series)
Would however rule out/not include incidental use(when it is just present and not front and center/used in some deliberate way)
Movie, “Flight.” Denzel Washington’s wife accuses him of being drunk within “...17 seconds...”
I’d just like to point out the the number 17 wasn’t significant in the Q movement until Twitter banned references to Q, and so we had to switch to 17 as a way around that. So, to assume that you’ve been pre-conditioned for something that was never meant to be important to the movement is likely just wishful thinking.
You sure that switch was organic......
Sports are random enough to make that a fluke, what is worth noticing is repeats from different sources within the same contained field(like in multiple TV series..)