1 Choose your expertise
2 Read your field
3 Read another field
4 See the effect

What's your area of expertise?

🎭 The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect in Action

Article on YOUR field
(with obvious errors)
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Article NOT your field
(same newspaper, same quality)
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"Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect works as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well... 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."
— Michael Crichton, 2002