why is Texas power often failing or skyrocketing in price?
In: Engineering
You’re getting your news from a website on which the majority of users are emotionally invested in Texas doing poorly as they perceive the people in charge of Texas to be their political enemies.
Because you get your news from such a site, routine power outages and other issues that commonly happen all over the world, but are never more than local news, are being posted on that site as though these local events are of international importance.
This causes an effect where the only articles you see about issues with electrical grids concern the electrical grid in Texas. That, in turn, causes you to incorrectly assume that, because Texas is the only state you see having power outages, that the outages in Texas are either more frequent or severe than they are elsewhere. In reality, you’re just seeing articles that have been chosen and upvoted by people who want Texas to fail. You do not see all of the other articles concerning power issues elsewhere because those articles either do not get posted or do not get upvoted.
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