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Rashomon effect en · NOUN

Etymology

From Japanese 羅生門 (rashōmon), after Akira Kurosawa's film Rashomon (1950), in which a crime witnessed by four individuals is described in four mutually contradictory ways.

Meanings

  1. The effect of the subjectivity of perception on recollection, by which observers of an event are able to produce substantially different but equally plausible accounts of it.
    • And, in accordance with the "Rashomon effect," depending on who is doing the telling, the reported effect of computerization in the same agency may differ widely. 1993, Marcos Leiderman, Technology in People Services: Research, Theory, and Applications:

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wikipedia: Akira Kurosawa