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aisling@anarres.family

Ashie

Edited 5 months ago

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y'know the media understanding paradox where a person will be (e.g.) exasperated with all the errors in the article on page 11 which deals with an area that they are expert in, and then turn to page 12 and assume that the article there on a subject they are a novice in is properly researched and a fair representation of the field?

I thought I saw it given a name a while back but don't remember: do you know what it's called?

Edit: thanks to fedizens who let me know that it's the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect (coined by Michael Crichton) when talking about the psychology of the reader, or from the perspective of media studies, Knoll's Law

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Mendie_Taoma@tech.lgbt

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@aisling

What I am stuck on, is especially on YouTube, is seeing youtubers not doing any modicum of research, and thus, having the exasperating errors, ... and pissing me off, for being errors, and then pissing me off, that they still get to be successful.

One guy tried to tell me that Family Feud [[Family Fortunes in the UK]] was only on video games systems from the Playstation 2 onward.

I have a copy of it for the NES. It's not that hard to research.

as just one example.

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K. Ryabitsev

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@aisling in case you're still looking for that name, it's the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect.
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