John Lisle

What did you learn?

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

They took the exact same questionnaire, and the majority of the students got a majority of the questions wrong.

in the sense that they put down something completely different than they did the first time.

So it's like nobody was even manipulating them.

That was just their own memory.

The majority got the majority of these important details wrong.

There's another intriguing kind of humorous psychological study.

I don't know how big the sample size was on this, but it was to determine how powerful our memory is in the sense that if you just suggest that someone did something wrong,

is it possible that they actually think they actually did?

So the suggestion was they took a bunch of students to some vending machines, and they either had them propose to the vending machine, something that surely you would remember, or they would suggest to them that they had proposed to the vending machine.

So some students would actually propose, and other students, they would just tell them, oh, imagine yourself proposing to this vending machine.

And afterwards, I don't remember what the percentage was, but a decent amount of percentage of the students who were only told to envision proposing actually thought they had proposed.

And so the power of suggestion is very strong.

I feel like I it's ironic.

I'm a historian, but I feel like my memory is not that good either.

I don't think anybody's.

No, it can't be.

I wonder if that would be good to have or bad to have.

She seems very happy.