Consider the standard public service announcement of the 1990s. A deep-voiced narrator would cite a chilling statistic: "Every 68 seconds, an American is sexually assaulted." While factually correct, these numbers often trigger a psychological defense mechanism known as "psychic numbing." When the human brain is confronted with large, abstract figures, it shuts down. We cannot feel the pain of 400,000 people; we can only feel the pain of one.
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