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Apr. 9th, 2009

  • 1:32 AM
nite owl
"In a similar study published last year, 40% of 150 UK participants claimed to remember seeing closed circuit television footage of the moment of the explosion on the bus in Tavistock Square on July 7th 2005. No such footage exists." (from Bad Science)

Basically, don't trust the public on anything.

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[info]squidblaine wrote:
Apr. 9th, 2009 12:37 pm (UTC)
But then... how did they find that out? Just out and ask "do you remember seeing footage of the explosion?" And was it 150 randomly selected people or... etc, etc.
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[info]sum0 wrote:
Apr. 9th, 2009 01:22 pm (UTC)
The title of the paper is "Flashbulb memories: special but not iconic", but I'm damned if I can find it online. Pfft. But Ben Goldacre is a trustable fellow.
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[info]stevenevens wrote:
Apr. 9th, 2009 12:52 pm (UTC)
Of course footage exists of *the moment* of the explosion. Doesn't mean to say they saw the explosion itself.
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[info]sum0 wrote:
Apr. 9th, 2009 01:21 pm (UTC)
Does it exist? I think you've misunderstood - it's not saying that they saw the bus explode with their own eyes. I assume the point it's making is that people assume they saw CCTV footage of the bus explosion on TV when there wasn't any.

Annoyingly the actual paper doesn't appear to be free online anywhere. Hooray for open research!
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[info]stevenevens wrote:
Apr. 9th, 2009 01:40 pm (UTC)
Nono, you misunderstood.

Footage of 'the moment' of the explosion exists - but not the explosion itself.

i.e. there's footage inside buildings where people were like "OMFGWTFWHATHAPPENEDOUTSIDE", and a lot of people have seen those - including me.
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[info]sum0 wrote:
Apr. 9th, 2009 01:44 pm (UTC)
Ohhh right I see. That's a good point, actually.
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