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287 sats \ 2 replies \ @freetx 8 Apr 2024 \ parent \ on: An Inch Deep and a Mile Wide mostly_harmless
The physicist Muarry Gell-Mann noticed this and remarked:
His point was, when you know a subject deeply the reporting of it is crazily bad....when you don't know alot about the subject its seems reasonable and enlightening. This was later termed as the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect
Yes! I had no idea there was a term for it. In my case the article would have the charges wrong, the evidence wrong, and often even the wrong court.
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I always forget the name of this effect (Dunning-Krugger always pops into my head, even though I know it's wrong). Thanks for saving me the trouble of looking it up.
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