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Why do seashells sound like the ocean—what is that rushing noise when you hold one to your ear?

Mechanism: common observation, explanation, misconception

Payoff: Challenging the misconception: the sound isn’t the sea, but ambient noise remixed by the shell’s shape.

Factual: passedApproval: approved1 evidence linksOpen in Script Lab

Performance

5.19× medianBaseline: 20

Evidence

1youtube

Duplicates

0Exact component-level matches

Limitations

0No missing signal is coerced to zero
Evidence1
youtube · youtube.video
oyj8kYnrj-AOpen source
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Advocate / Skeptic0

No evaluations recorded.

Duplicate signals0

No exact component matches.

Limitations0

No explicit limitations recorded.

    Factual review
    Editorial approval
    Audit trail2
    factual_reviewpending → passedchatgpt-codexpro
    approvalpending → approvedchatgpt-codexpro