Thread: [Merged] The MANDELA Effect.
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Old 15th March 2018, 06:01 AM   #217
JesseCuster
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Originally Posted by esspee View Post
An rudimentary example of such an experiment could be the following:

A research group identifies something that the public regularly mix up.
Maybe 80% of people remember adult nappies as 'depend' and 20% as 'depends'.

Using various media sources and techniques they can try to alter this ratio within the population.

They can then measure the effectiveness of the effort and method by re-testing the population.
Maybe they shift the ratio to 60% thinking it is 'depend' and 40% 'depends'.
So 'The Mandela Effect' is perhaps just making a few more people think incorrect things that some people already believe for well understood reasons? Can you explain how you think this actually works? Like hypothetical examples of how 'various media sources and techniques' (a rather uselessly vague phrase) could be utilised to perpetuate these false ideas without any record in the media of the false ideas actually existing in the media?

I've an idea myself for how you can get people to believe this kind of crap. Put up a post on Reddit claiming that you remember something that isn't true and before you know it, people will come crawling out from under the woodwork agreeing with you and saying they remember it as well. No need for grandiose social experiments involving placing false facts in the media (for which there's no evidence anyway).

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Such technology if elaborated and developed to be very effective could have great potential for propaganda purposes, for engineering consent, for defense and military purposes and for influencing public opinion at home or abroad of historical events.
The fact that you can imagine up some potential use of some imagined experiment for which you have no evidence does not make it at all plausible. Lots of silly ideas would be useful to lots of people if they were true. That doesn't mean they aren't silly ideas.
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