#misremember

“This is an extreme thirst!” And I know me and my friends do, too. We quote this very often! Anytime we need a drink, are thirsty, drinking lemonade, have a giant container, etc. . But here’s the thing, me and my friends haven’t been using this meme, because we’ve always know it as this instead:

Around the Curve at Dusk

Seeking the ravine

Gradually

Lending itself south,

Around the curve at dusk

Time wheels in reverse

Each night

Each trek

I draw near its brave ramble,

Soon to tumble in its rapids

With few regrets

I seek the rush, the denial

The dull gleam of years lost

Where the swift ravine stalls

In the old wilderness

People misremember numerical facts to fit their biases — ScienceDaily

Along with partisan news outlets and political blogs, there’s another surprising source of misinformation on controversial topics — it’s you.

A new study found that people given accurate statistics on a controversial issue tended to misremember those numbers to fit commonly held beliefs.

For example, when people are shown that the number of Mexican immigrants in the United States declined…