Hi Tweets,

Jerry Tangren writes:

(big snip)
>As an example, take the scene of an auto accident. The first witness might
>give an accurate description of the cars involved. Another witness would not
>notice the car details, but could tell exactly how the accident happened.
>
>Did these people see the same accident? Yes, (snip)

Also known as the Rashomon Effect, from the Kurosawa movie wherein four
people's (one's a ghost) versions are played out of a bandit meeting an
aristocratic couple in a forest in medieval Japan and what may or may not
have then ensued. Their perceptions of the encounter depended on their
class, their sex, their experience, their motives.

The Rashomon Effect made for a wonderful movie, but it'd turn birding into
an absolute nightmare. '-)

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