Re: Dr. Solly's quote and the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

I don't think it's a failure of memory, I think it's a failure of 
generalisation.

By the way, London isn't one big smouldering hole.

On Sun, 21 Aug 2011, Gadi Evron wrote:

> A few years ago doc solly said something, I'll reconstruct the quote as 
> I have no idea where to find it. Probably somewhere in the ancient 
> TH-Research archives.
>
> "It is amazing to me that when people read something they know about in 
> the press, which is wrongly portrayed, they don't make the logical 
> conclusion that the rest may be just as bad." (not original quote)
>
> Today Hank enlightened me on Facebook that this is called the Gell-man 
> Amnesia Effect.
>
> "Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open 
> the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's 
> case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the 
> journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the 
> issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story 
> backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause 
> rain" stories. Paper's full of them.
> In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors 
> in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, 
> and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about 
> Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget 
> what you know."
> — Michael Crichton
>
> Source: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/65213
>
>       Gadi.
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