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You can never construct a representative image of the past. You are operating with a limited amount of sources which have survived in one form or another. They
by bluetomcat 3y ago
You can never construct a representative image of the past. You are operating with a limited amount of sources which have survived in one form or another. They are not evenly distributed across time and space. There is an inherent “data loss” problem when a person dies - gone are all the impressions, unwritten experiences, familiar smells. Even a living person’s memory may not be reliable at one point.
- pintxo 3y agoAt one point? Human memory is surprisingly unreliable. One example to test for yourself: https://youtu.be/vJG698U2Mvo?si=16fwk8wG8Yyhim5t https://youtu.be/vJG698U2Mvo?si=16fwk8wG8Yyhim5t
- psychoslave 3y agoThat is not even memory bias here. Sure, what you pay attention to will impact what you remember, but this experience goes further and show how your attention can be manipulated to be blind to ploted events.
- Miraltar 3y agoExact but the point is still valid. The Mandela Effect is a great example of it.
- ongy 3y agoSerious question Are you supposed to not see the gorilla? I assumed it's the trap and there's some slightly less obvious catch in there.
- psychoslave 3y agoThat's why I always found so strange that only those with fame/wealth distorted social representations ends up with a Wikipedia biography.
- not_knuth 3y agoWikipedia is not meant to be an archive of all information. It's meant to be an encyclopedia of things that are notable [1], which is probably where the confusion comes from. As you can imagine, the topic of what notability is, has been discussed at length since Wikipedia's inception [2]. [1] Notability according to Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability [2] Oldest Wikipedia talk comments I could find on Notability https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:History/Wikipedia_talk:Notability&offset=20050606120000 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:History...
- psychoslave 3y agoI know all that all to well, I’ve been a Wikimedia contributor since 2004 and dag deep the rabbit hole. I don’t have to agree with all consensus done in the wikisphere, though. I grant that it’s a tricky point. :)