We're just not good at fact checking things. We skim them, assuming they're accurate, and then the errors settle in, like stones at the bottom of a pond. Sharp ones. Stones that may well cut our feet when we inadvertently step on them later.
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Channels of Information, or How Metro Trains Derailed its Passengers
It's a funny thing, but displaying information using multiple channels of information for folks with particular accessibility needs also helps everyone else, because it gives them more signals that their brain can decode in the background, even if they're not paying perfect attention (because who, in this age of devices, is ever paying perfect attention??)