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Your linked article mentions that people are particularly accurate at remembering where they were: "We then went back to the 9/11 survey data, and we did see th
by svachalek 4y ago
Your linked article mentions that people are particularly accurate at remembering where they were: "We then went back to the 9/11 survey data, and we did see that memory was better for where than the other details. In recalling where they were when they learned of the attack, people were 89 percent accurate at survey two and 83 percent accurate at survey three."
I was in my car commuting to work, and very annoyed at what sounded like some kind of tasteless radio prank. I turned it off and only upon arriving at the office realized it was actually happening.
- boomboomsubban 4y agoThat would still be around one in ten people unable to remember where they were. Enough that Bush not knowing where he was isn't strong evidence he was connected.
- eviks 4y agoIt wouldn't. Saying you know, but being wrong on details, is very different from saying you don't know
- boomboomsubban 4y agoIt's possible he had discussed the event since and realized his memory was unclear. That's how my "where were you when you heard about 9/11" goes. I confidently had an answer for decades, but a few years ago discussed it with my father who I remembered telling me, and he doesn't remember it the same way. So now I'm not sure whether either of us remember it correctly.
- eviks 4y agoYour anecdote is fine, but it doesn't resolve the issue with the wrong assessment: nowhere near "one in ten people" had this self-reflective experience you had that led to them declaring since they don't know, that was a reference to a totally different group of people
- FpUser 4y agoJust realized while reading this: I remember I was in the office pounding on keyboard. What I do not remember at all is which one of 2 offices in 2 different locations I was at. Kind of bugs me.