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Message:: [QUOTE="Seattlite86, post: 3831094, member: 59737"]First of all, thank you for asking the questions you did. I believe the answers to them to be important. There are two powerful concepts in psychology that explain how people perceive something when they really wish it to be true or false. The first is confirmation bias, in which someone, who thinks they have something special, will see comments like "super rare" and immediately confirm their item to be just that. The second is cognitive dissonance,  in which people ignore any evidence that disproves their beliefs,  and often use the evidence against them to somehow support them. We see this often with comments like "just jealous" or "haters". People who believe something to be rare and valuable will waste time and money trying to "strike it rich". We see people everyday who watch a YouTube video about rare coins and then come here with damaged or common coins hoping we will tell them they've found the big one. Using words like super rare, without being sure, offers a dangerous shred of hope to people who really don't need it. This is why I try to keep people from wildly guessing about errors and varieties, and putting false hope into others. Furthermore, if you go back to the error-ref discussion on circles, you should notice two important things:1. There is absolutely no mention of occurrence in that explanation. All it says is unknown cause. Unknown cause does not translate to "rare" or "super rare". 2. The circles shown in the article do not match the images above in terms of size, location, or appearance. We cannot definitively say they are the same. If anything, it is more likely that they are not the same.[/QUOTE]

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