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Another great opportunity to quote the "Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect" (coined by Michael Crichton). For those who don't know, Gell-Mann won the nobel prize in phys
by ltbarcly3 7y ago
Another great opportunity to quote the "Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect" (coined by Michael Crichton).
For those who don't know, Gell-Mann won the nobel prize in physics. He pointed out that whenever you see a news article about a topic you personally know about, the article is always shockingly inaccurate.
The 'amnesia' part is that you immediately forget that every article you have expertise on is hilariously inaccurate, and assume that articles you read are accurate the rest of the time.
Lesson: news articles are written by non-experts trying to sum up some things that they do not understand, and with exceptions I am unaware of, never accurate
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#GellMannAmnesiaEffect https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#GellMannAmn...
- comex 7y agoMost news articles are a whole lot more accurate than these ones were.
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