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Latest revision as of 03:23, 13 February 2024
You are a plummer. You read a newspaper article about a plumming problem, but it is full of errors. You find the article to be so inacurate that you actually get mad. Then you flip the newspaper to another page and read an article about carpentry, a field you know nothing about, and you believe every word of that article.
Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for the rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge - Knoll’s law of media accuracy[1] 
For Further Study
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19084958
https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/
https://ask.metafilter.com/330223/Whose-law-is-this
https://loricism.fandom.com/wiki/Gell-Mann_Amnesia_Effect
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