Video-Paper On the Mandela Effect

Only 14% of professional astronomers thought there was 9 missions to the Moon = 86% whose reality was there was more or less than 9 missions (the accurate #). Under what viable scenario does nearly 9 out of 10 people who make there living studying the stars and planets mishear or mismember such basic and readily available information?

Your incredulity aside, I think it's perfectly reasonable to assume that many astronomers wouldn't be able to remember if there had been 8 or 9 or 10 trips to the moon.

Your incredulity aside, I think it's perfectly reasonable to assume that many astronomers wouldn't be able to remember if there had been 8 or 9 or 10 trips to the moon.

If you can't read the statistics properly, there is no sense in having this conversation.

If you can't read the statistics properly, there is no sense in having this conversation.

Shocking response.

The "controls" were weak and made no account of possible reasons why a number of people could all make the same mistake.  For example, "Mirror mirror on the wall" is what is written in the fairy tales told to us as children so we are more likely to remember this than the Disney adaptation.  This kind of confusion is a possibility that needs to be taken into consideration and wasn't.  I'm surprised this man has a PHD in science - but then so far I only have his word for this.  More research is needed - into him, not the Mandela effect.