[lbo-talk] memory...

[Doug Henwood]

I posted a piece from the Washington Post the other day on how hard a  
job mythbusters have. The article provoked an interesting thread on  
the AAPOR list. Among the points: people often remember that things  
are associated, but not the precise details of the association.

I'm not supposed to forward messages from the list, but one poster  
reported on a 1991 survey in the Detroit area. Several respondents  
knew Sen Joe McCarthy was somehow associated with communism - but  
thought he was a communist, not an anti-communist. Several white  
respondents remembered Rosa Parks as a black woman who gave up her  
seat on the bus.

And then there's this precious definition of the Tet offensive: "The  
line in football where you have three backs and you split a wide  
receiver to the right. A handoff to the running back."

Doug