Halfway through this delicious article on #Science: “These publications between 1972 and 1982 have also given us an excellent opportunity to study the birth of an academic urban legend and to explore the micro dynamics behind the often dramatic outcomes of the whisper game.” Rekdal, “Academic urban legends” http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0306312714535679
#SoGood (this is also related to my last toot, with the excerpt from the linguistics urban legends book. Don’t trust everything you read.)