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Physicist Murray Gell-Mann, for whom the effect was named. Crichton first described the "Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect" in an April 2002 speech about speculation to the International Leadership Forum: [1] Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well.
Murray Gell-Mann's fortunate encounter with mathematician Richard Earl Block at Caltech, in the fall of 1960, "enlightened" him to introduce a novel classification scheme, in 1961, for hadrons. [ 46 ] [ 47 ] A similar scheme had been independently proposed by Yuval Ne'eman , and has come to be explained by the quark model. [ 48 ]
In a speech in 2002, Crichton coined the term Gell-Mann amnesia effect to describe the phenomenon of experts reading articles within their fields of expertise and finding them to be error-ridden and full of misunderstanding, but seemingly forgetting those experiences when reading articles in the same publications written on topics outside of ...
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Some of the sources weren't really supporting the sentences they were pinned to. For example, the NYTimes mentions "news" and social memetics but did not mention anything about the Gell-Mann amnesia effect or selective distrust of media due to expertise. The National Review article doesn't offer support for the sentence it was tacked on to.
The Gell-Mann matrices, developed by Murray Gell-Mann, are a set of eight linearly independent 3×3 traceless Hermitian matrices used in the study of the strong interaction in particle physics. They span the Lie algebra of the SU(3) group in the defining representation.
The New York Times reference in the article has no mention of either Gell-Mann or amnesia. The WP-intern link Gell-Mann amnesia effect goes to M. Chrichton. The content of this effect is thin, and from Crichton alone, who for fun pasted the name of Gell-Mann on it. The Murray Gell-Mann amnesia effect is wikipedia garbage.
Gell-Mann amnesia effect: Believing newspaper articles outside one's area of expertise, even after acknowledging that neighboring articles in one's area of expertise are completely wrong. Gérson's law: "An advantage should be taken in every situation, regardless of ethics." Gibrat's law: "The size of a firm and its growth rate are independent."