The Importance of Primary Sources

Ever wonder why the game of telephone works so well, or why your gossip-y friends never get the story quite right, or why some of your textbooks contain incorrect information?

As much as we try, we have a hard time replicating ANYTHING exactly. Check out this video to see what happens when 500 people try and trace a simple line by looking only at the one that came just before and not the original. That seems simple enough, doesn't it?

A Sequence of Lines Traced by Five Hundred Individuals from clement valla on Vimeo.