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When you’re an expert in any field and you see how journalists botch something so basic, you’ll learn to be a lot more skeptical of articles in other fields as
by 8ytecoder 5y ago
When you’re an expert in any field and you see how journalists botch something so basic, you’ll learn to be a lot more skeptical of articles in other fields as well.
There’s a name for this that’s not coming to my mind right now
- syockit 5y agoGell-Mann amnesia.
- samhw 5y agoWell akshually... Gell-Mann amnesia is the opposite of what they described (though it's probably still what they had in mind). It's the tendency to read reportage about something on which you're an expert, realise how wildly incorrect it is, but then to proceed to the next page of the newspaper and totally trust their reporting on another topic - as opposed to 'learning to be a lot more sceptical'. Hence the 'amnesia' bit.