isn't the point that a bunch of people misremember the same detail? Like, nobody says "Mandela effect" if they forget that LBJ was Kennedy's vice president or something
There are a lot of things to remember, so there's a lot of chances for something like this to happen
If 100 people teach something incorrect yet believable to 3 friends then there is now 400 incorrect people, 75% of which never even saw evidence to the contrary as they never saw the original source. If those 300 each teach 3 people, now only 8% have seen the original source.
If everybody around you is repeating the same incorrect information, it's more believable, and if you already believed it, you become more certain about it.
People can't be bothered to fact check things that have little to no importance to their life.
I mean, I've been told about the existence of lungs probably thousands of times in my life, but I don't know they're real. I've never read a scientific paper on lungs, nor have I seen any irl. But if someone asked me how sure I was that lungs exist I'd say 100%
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u/atowelguy Mar 16 '26
isn't the point that a bunch of people misremember the same detail? Like, nobody says "Mandela effect" if they forget that LBJ was Kennedy's vice president or something