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Darmok
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09 Oct 2016, 12:38 pm

Dox47 wrote:
Every time the press reports on a subject I have personal experience with, they get it completely wrong; why should I assume that they get the things I don't have personal experience with right?


Then you have cured yourself of "Gell-Mann Amnesia" -- the tendency to recognize that press reports on things you know about are usually wrong, and then to forget that fact when you read a report about something you don't know about.

https://calhounpress.net/blogs/blog/780 ... sia-effect


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