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Sorry if I'm missing something, but what does that have to do with the Berenstein Bears article which this is a comment to?

• DanBC 11y ago
  When something happens (911; a crime you witness; a cop shooting someone that you witness) you get a bunch of people to write down, as soon as possible after the event, what happened and what they were doing and where they were. You then check again 5 years later. You'll find a lot of differences between the two accounts. What's weird though is when you show people their original account, in their own handwriting, and those people will deny the original account. "Oh no, I must have been mistaken when I wrote that" they'll say. In the case of the books people are convinced that they have some special version of the book with the Berenstein spelling, and they can't believe that their book is just like every other book with the Berenstain name. They'll argue about it, tell you you're wrong, and then dig out a box from the attic and discover that actually they're wrong. This is a useful natural experiment that lets us know that eye witnesses are not reliable, especially when time has passed.
• tootie 11y ago
  People can very easily remember things that didn't happen.