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collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Interesting fact I learned recently: there's a high chance your memory of where you were on 9/11 is wrong.
In a 1986 experiment, a professor asked his students to write their memories of the Challenger exploding the day after it happened. Three years later, he asked them to share their memories again.
Less than 7% of students were right. More than half were mostly wrong; a full quarter were entirely wrong about every detail.
Yet every one swore they remembered it "like it was yesterday."