The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect

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

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

References

The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect is Brain Learnin' Stuff. Yep!

• Barnum Effect • The Framing Effect • Availability Cascade • The Hindsight Fallacy • Panpsychism • Halpern Critical Thinking Assessment • The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect • Inner Monologue • NPCs • Dark Matter •