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Indeed. In my experience, the bad feeling gets even worse when noticing something wrong in something you are not specialised at all. However to your point, Mic
by xenonite 5y ago
Indeed. In my experience, the bad feeling gets even worse when noticing something wrong in something you are not specialised at all.
However to your point, Michael Crichton describes the rather sad "Gell-Mann amnesia effect": One tends to still trust the other pages of the magazine.
- cpach 5y agoHopefully people don’t use TV news or newspapers as their only sources of information. Newspapers are good for getting a feeling for what’s currently going around in the world – but one also need to complement them with other publications. E.g. books, meta-studies, etc. Let’s take an example: If I want to know what’s going on in Yemen this week, I’m probably better of reading The Economist than borrowing a book at the library. But if I want to get a deeper understanding on the situation in Yemen, I’m probably better off reading a book rather than a news article.