Why do you refuse to answer my questions or address anything I have said? THey are not gotcha questions or rhetorical B.S. questions like "have you stopped beating your wife".
Did you already independently read the information that I was discussing yesterday?
No you said you would do the research and report back. I'm still waiting.
You now demonstrate a grasp of such concepts as the telescoping effect.
Yesterday, you claimed such behavior was proof of lying, now you know better.
This was the point I trying to make yesterday. When you were calling the other poster a liar.
I'm not sure why you think that I should invest the time to link you to information you now possess.
However that occurred.
I'm glad you learned something.
You seem to not be making any sense. And clearly you won't find the info because you are wrong. Sorry for proving your gun nut friend was lying.
I'm making plenty of sense.
BUt if it will move this nonsense forward.
Telescoping effect - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
"In cognitive psychology, the telescoping effect (or telescoping bias) refers to the temporal displacement of an event whereby people perceive recent events as being more remote than they are and distant events as being more recent than they are.[1] The former is known as backward telescoping or time expansion, and the latter as is known asforward telescoping.[1] Three years is approximately the time frame in which events switch from being displaced backwards in time to forwards in time, with events occurring three years in the past being equally likely to be reported with forward telescoping bias as with backward telescoping bias.[1] Although telescoping occurs in both the forward and backward directions, in general the effect is to increase the number of events reported too recently"
Now we see that a confusion on dates, instead of being evidence of lying, is a fairly normal error in memory.
And you, instead of being the voice of reason, were ignorant of the facts, and were quick to falsely accuse someone of lying.
Maybe you didn't know this yesterday.
But you know it now.
SO stop calling that other poster a liar.
It is intellectually dishonest for you to insist that he is lying when a plausible alternative has been offered and supported.
So where does that say that an event that was claimed to happen 25 years ago can be confused with 12 years ago? Especially when there is a great reference point in time like moving into a house and getting married 25 years ago?
You can be fooled into believing he can't remember if his one self defense happened around the time he moved into the house and got married if you want. I am not fooled so easily however.
Although telescoping occurs in both the forward and backward directions, in general the effect is to increase the number of events reported too recently
Well he reported it as later rather than too recently. Your own link doesn't help you.
It does show however why the gun surveys are so inaccurate so thanks.
Telescoping leads to an over reporting of the frequency of events.[3] This over reporting is because participants include events beyond the period, either events that are too recent for the target time period (backward telescoping) or events that are too old for the target time period (forward telescoping).[3]
"occurs in both forward and backwards directions..."
You do understand that "in general" implies that not all examples will be in the same direction, right?
That though most will be in one direction, some will be in the other direction?
Thus, your attempt to use a confusion on a date, as "proof" of a lie, is unreasonable.