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Having fun with probability models (literature.cafe)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I always wondered where the crazy idea that people once believed that the Earth was flat came from.

So, looks like it comes from a single prolific academic that mixed fiction and history, describing people just about a century before him, and that everybody took for gospel. A famous book said "hey, everybody on your grandpa generation believed this", and it became common knowledge!

I'm not sure I'm even surprised by something like this.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

sounds like a meme that aged like milk