u/RustinCarcosa

hi

i read some studies that claims that people believe the paranormal are more likery to report or believe they saw a paranormal event so im curious to here what people say

heress an example https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053810022001507

heres from one of the studys

IThere are numerous psychological factors that are relevant in explaining the unreliability of eyewitness testimony (for reviews of the relevance of such research for reports of anomalous experiences, see French, 2003; French & Wilson, 2006). One such factor is the phenomenon of inattentional blindness which refers to our failure to notice stimuli that are directly in our visual field when engaged in some other cognitive task. This phenomenon was first noted by psychologists Dan Simons and Christopher Chabris (1999). They showec participants a video of a group of people wearing either black or white T-shirts. Participants were instructed to count the number of times that the people in the white shirts threw a ball to each other, ignoring the people in the black shirts. Halfway through, someone wearing a gorilla suit walked into the middle of the scene, stood there beating their chest for a few seconds, and then walked off. Amazingly, almost half of the participants who did the counting task failed to see the gorilla. To their eternal credit, Simons and Chabris gave their paper the brilliant title of "Gorillas in our midst". Clearly, if information is not encoded at the time that an event is witnessed, it will not be available to recall subsequently.

Anne Richards, Moa Gunnarsson Hellgren, and I carried out an investigation to investigate the relationship between inattentional blindness, paranormal belief /experience, and the personality dimension of absorption (Richards, Hellgren, & French, 2014). If you are the kind of person who would get a high score on a measure of absorption, then you are the kind of person who would become completely absorbed when reading a novel, watching a film, or even doing a crossword puzzle. It seemed likely to us that such people might be more susceptible to inattentional blindness. Furthermore, several previous studies had shown that

absorption correlates with paranormal belief and the tendency to report ostensiblv paranormal experiences (e.g., Glicksohn & Barrett, 2003; Nadon & Kihlstrom, 1987; Wolfradt, 1997). Participants were presented with a short animation in which black and white letters bounced around on a screen. Thev were instructed to count the number of times that the white letters hit the edge of the screen and to ignore the black letters. Part way through the animation, a large red cross moved slowly across the screen from left to right. When the animation had finished, participants were asked to report the number of times that white letters had hit the edge of the screen but they were then also asked if they had noticed any other stimuli during the animation. In Experiment 1, as hypothesised, the inattentionally blind participants (that is, those who failed to see the red cross) scored higher on both absorption and paranormal belief/experience compared to those who had seen the red cross. This finding was replicated in a second experiment in which the capacity of working memory was also assessed. It was found that the inattentionally blind participants had lower working memory capacity compared to the non-inattentionally blind participants.

This raises the possibility that some reports of ostensibly paranormal experiences may have perfectly mundane explanations but that the claimant had simply failed to notice something at the time that would provide such an explanation. As a hypothetical example, suppose someone claims that they were in a room completely on their own and that a book mysteriously moved from one side of the room to the other when they were not looking, They may well reject any suggestion that perhaps there was another person in the room with them that they simply failed to notice and that that person had actually moved the book. They may insist that they would definitely have noticed any such person. But would they? After all, many people miss a gorilla.

i would love to see my theory that dunks childhood friends ferret rafe and pudding are the rat hawk and pig

dunk, once he gets into status at the targaryen court, might have tried to help his old friends out and give them a job at the court or something

But it backfires and they attack aelora cause they resented the rich or they were hired by the blackfyles

it would be cool to see it in a fic

whats yours

>I also then made the point about **the various pressures in which Maester Yandel, the actual "writer" of most of the text, was working under, and how he had his biases as well**. I noted to the audience that **in particular Yandel starts to get quite careful when he writes about events in which various important, influential, powerful, and (most of all) still living people had a role**. He has **an interest in keeping his head on his neck. Ned and Stannis practically disappear from the account of the rebellion because Yandel has cut out his original account of the rebellion after Robert's death, Eddard's execution for treason, and Stannis and Renly proclaiming for the throne, and hastily did a revised and more politically acceptable one**. At that, George asked us where we imagined Yandel was at the time of the novels, and if maybe he's getting beheaded (with a bit of a laugh and a wicked glint in his eye, I'll add.) I explained that in my own head, Yandel is in King's Landing, clutching his book, showing up each day for an audience with the king... and each day being told perhaps the next day. Except on those occasions where, you know, they tell him the king's getting married today, and then whoops, Joffrey is dead, etc. ([Source](https://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/12432))

case in point from the book

['The Red Keep was soon breached, but in the chaos, misfortune soon fell upon Elia of Dorne and her children, Rhaenys and Aegon. It is tragic that the blood spilled in war may as readily be innocent as it is guilty, and that those who ravished and murdered Princess Elia escaped justice. It is not known who murdered Princess Rhaenys in her bed, or smashed the infant Prince Aegon's head against a wall. Some whisper it was done at Aerys's own command when he learned that Lord Lannister had taken up Robert's cause, while others suggest that Elia did it herself for fear of what would happen to her children in the hands of her dead husband's enemies.]

and for the finale Yandel dedicates the book to Robert, then Joffrey, and then Tommen. Revealing he is presenting the book to the Lannister royal family, and taking note of current events like the Lannisters winning the war at present.

so yeah i take anything he writes about the reyne tarbeck massacre, tywins being a great hand, duskendale and Roberts rebellions with a grain of salt

yes I know its debatable we will get it but heres hoping

me im looking forward to daerons conquest of dorne

mines Shadowchaser and the Stormborn by Urrax 

i love the lpots the author had planned ded and i love the idea of arthur dayne being jons bittersteel

whats yours