Mastodon Feed
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
One student, when shown her original report, even went so far as to say “I know that’s my handwriting, but I couldn’t possibly have written that.”
Our brains really don't capture photographs like we think they do. They store divergent pieces of info and reassemble them over the years, and that reassembly is tremendously error-prone and subject to change as we do.
This is from the book "Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error," which I'm currently reading and which I find fascinating.