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It's kinda sad the public just eat it up.
by vymague 9y ago
It's kinda sad the public just eat it up.
- chatmasta 9y agoMakes you wonder how much other BS is being forced down our throats. Often as a subject matter expert, when you see media coverage of your domain, you know it’s BS. But then you forget about that the second an “expert” in another domain is on TV telling you what to think. There have been psychology studies on this effect but I can’t find the references atm.
- alva 9y agoGell-Mann Amnesia
- chatmasta 9y agoYep, that's it. I guess the idea comes from a quote attributed to him [0]: > Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect works as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward-reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story-and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read with renewed interest as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about far-off Palestine than it was about the story you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know. I swear I've seen this confirmed in some psychology studies but I can't find them right now. [0] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Murray_Gell-Mann https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Murray_Gell-Mann