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There’s a Gell-Mann amnesia effect for people you know personally, where media pop-psych profiles of people you know in person are often wildly off the mark and you don’t assign them a shred of believability, yet still half-believe psych profiles of people you don’t know
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I don’t think it’s always malice except with explicit yellow journalists specializing in hatchet jobs. Journalists too have their own false narrative of how they’re genuinely getting at the truth of a person with their methods.