Psychology
Why you remember trivia but forget its source
HERE’S THE INTERESTING PART
Source amnesia is why you are incredibly confident about random trivia but completely unable to back it up. Your internal filing system is highly efficient at storing raw data but terribly negligent at keeping the accompanying citations. You will aggressively defend a random statistic in an argument, completely unaware that you acquired the information from the back of a cereal box ten years ago.
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