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A comment on Paul McCartney's Freakish Memory. Parent comment

Re:Paul McCartney's Freakish Memory by saalweachter on Monday October 03, 2022 @10:23PM (#33076114)
I've also heard so many more impressive and concrete memory anecdotes.

John Mulaney had a great one about Bill Clinton remembering his mother's name decades after meeting her once in college.

So I was expecting a lot more out of this article.

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Re:Paul McCartney's Freakish Memory by xyzzy_plugh on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @01:30AM (#33076946)
> John Mulaney had a great one about Bill Clinton remembering his mother's name decades after meeting her once in college.

I just want you to know it took me several minutes to parse this correctly.

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Re:Paul McCartney's Freakish Memory by xpe on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @03:31AM (#33077487)
Hearing a particular story about a person’s memory may well be survivorship bias. (Many people will have some impressive memory recollections. A famous person interacts with lots of people —- who are likely to remember those stories —- so certain stories ‘survive’ to be retold.)
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