Begrudging Recluse on Nostr: I recently tooted about experts in the news and learned the term 'Gell-Mann amnesia ...
I recently tooted about experts in the news and learned the term 'Gell-Mann amnesia effect':
"The phenomenon of experts believing news articles written on topics outside of their fields of expertise, yet acknowledging that articles written in the same publication within their fields of expertise are error-ridden and full of misunderstanding."
I think the very same thing happens often with news about other countries. If someone links me an article about some law or event in a country I know barely anything about, I'm sometimes like 'wow!'.
Then I see the articles being linked about Belgium and I cringe. They're too simplistic. They didn't discuss subtle changes that have happened since then. What these 16 other politicians involved that they didn't mention? Also elections are coming up and this thing can disappear. Actually the intention behind is was very different. Hey, they left out this extremely important detail too, what???
Especially when the articles circulated a while ago about the Belgian #covid clean air laws, I was so frustrated about how inaccurate it all was.
It's difficult to get past language barriers, to understand local politics, to take a long history in account. If the article about a different country is not a deep dive, it probably isn't as accurate or simple as it comes across at first.
"The phenomenon of experts believing news articles written on topics outside of their fields of expertise, yet acknowledging that articles written in the same publication within their fields of expertise are error-ridden and full of misunderstanding."
I think the very same thing happens often with news about other countries. If someone links me an article about some law or event in a country I know barely anything about, I'm sometimes like 'wow!'.
Then I see the articles being linked about Belgium and I cringe. They're too simplistic. They didn't discuss subtle changes that have happened since then. What these 16 other politicians involved that they didn't mention? Also elections are coming up and this thing can disappear. Actually the intention behind is was very different. Hey, they left out this extremely important detail too, what???
Especially when the articles circulated a while ago about the Belgian #covid clean air laws, I was so frustrated about how inaccurate it all was.
It's difficult to get past language barriers, to understand local politics, to take a long history in account. If the article about a different country is not a deep dive, it probably isn't as accurate or simple as it comes across at first.