A question about bears?

Aqua, read the 2 links I provided. It should give the insight into the question about my question

BryanJerome wrote: Aqua, read the 2 links I provided. It should give the insight into the question about my question

I'm still missing this? What's your point?

did you read the 2 links rickie? If you do, you either understand my point, or don't. Either of which is fine by me.... Just curious is all

Fine by me too. I am also courious. It just seems to me reference to links isn't the same as explaining your personal reasons and motivations for posting this?

Personally I think the reason for the misremembering is that that 'stain' on the end is not very common, whereas 'stein' is a lot more common, and the word already has 2 'e's in it, meaning it is easily misread. The brain likes to 'fill things in'...

Maybe I am just to curious BryanJerome, the people that posted in this thread explained their memories, or opinions about this title / series of Berenstein/ain. But I would like to know what you did remember of their books.

Maybe interesting because you did not told/explain your own memories about it. Just wondering.. if you would like to go inside out about your own question for a very small moment.. I am so curious!

BryanJerome wrote: did you read the 2 links rickie?

BTW Yes I did. Still don't understand why you posted this thread?

It was posted because it's an interesting phenomenon - the remembering of things that never existed. At least that's why I assume it was posted.

However it took us two and a half pages to actually figure that was what the point of the topic was...it would have been better to pose the question, follow with an explanation, and end with a summery/conclusion/further question, rather than just leaving the whole point hanging and trying to get people to randomly answer.

Anyway. One of the links posted was exactly the same as the link I posted, I thought that was funny.

But really it comes down to "the simplest solution is the most likely solution", and in this case the most likely solution is that people just remembered poorly - likely, as Edan said, due to the spelling and the brain's love of filling in gaps. I remember Berenstein Bears because my ten-year old brain "filled in" the unfamiliar spelling with a pronunciation that was familiar, and my memory of the book cover accepts this and sees what it wants to see. It's pretty important to take into account just how poor human memory actually is.

Anyway, the alternate universe thing is more interesting, and fun to talk about. :laugh: (Though again, it would have perhaps been easier all around if all the facts/points had been made from the beginning). :whistle:

(Though again, it would have perhaps been easier all around if all the facts/points had been made from the beginning).

but not as much fun?

If I had posted my memory (it's BereinSTEIN- EMPHATICALLY STEIN), or the links originally, I would have been tampering with the results. The answers given needed to be BLIND based on memory, not on research, which is why I was frustrated with the posting of the books and authors which gives the (wrong) name. Scientific Method people.