Talk:Illusory truth effect/GA1

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1. I'm still rather confused about what the effect is. The article as it stands just seems to be a list of loosely connected psychology papers. While the initial study's methodology is extensively discussed, adequate description of the results and discussion of them are lacking. The authors found an effect but how did they, or other subsequent studies, explain why this effect occurs at all. The closest the article gets to explaining the psychological basis of this effect is one sentence about hindsight bias which left me more confused than informed. There's a second sentence, separated by an unsourced paragraph on a different topic (see number 3), that cites the exact same source, and gives slightly more information but no more clarity

2. Equally pressing is the vagueness and puffery of much of the article. "One science writer", "some researchers", who are these people? "essentially replicated the original study" What does "essentially" mean and what makes it not a full replication? "The truth effect plays a significant role in various fields of activity", "Examples of the truth effect can be found everywhere." yet only three examples are given to substantiate those two claims. Conversely, much of the references to papers are far too specific w/r/t the number of authors named in the text: "Eryn J. Newman, Mevagh Sanson, Emily K. Miller, Adele Quigley-McBride, Jeffrey L. Foster, Daniel M. Bernstein, and Maryanne Garry" I have a 15" screen and this takes up half of it, it would be far more easily read if it were referenced like most multiauthor papers as Newman, et al..

3. The second paragraph of the Hindsight Bias section seems to be entirely original research, and in the Cato instance fails to cite the "one study" it refers to.

4. Only one of the alternative names is mentioned in the prose; where do the others come from? Why do different researchers call it different things?

5. The study on it's relation to "truthiness" positions itself as showing that the truth effect is impacted by more than simple repetition but contextual information surrounding it. In fact, the study it cites says as much in its abstract: recollection of sources can hinder the truth effect and that memorability of sources is important for whether the truth effect occurs or not. This important aspect of the effect is obscured by opaque quotes.

6. More generally, the article has an issue with
   overusing quotations
   where summary and paraphrasing of information would be more useful and accessable.

7. The lead doesn't adequately summarize the content of the article, and in fact contains information not elsewhere mentioned in the text.

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