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I experienced the primacy effect many years before I knew what it was, when I learned as a child that Sweden had the highest life expectancy in the world. For most of my life Sweden occupied in my mind the unofficial position of "the most ideal society." Only recently has Sweden been knocked off the pedestal.

From the BBC in 2019:

"Sweden's 100 explosions this year: What's going on?"

"This category of crime was not even logged prior to 2017. Then, in 2018, there were 162 explosions and in the past two months alone the bomb squad have been called to almost 30."

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