On the Nature of History

The checks lab is comparable to how history is formed based on the educated judgments of the historians and the facts they choose to ignore. Not every piece of information is relevant and we assume a stance of knowledge by authority to allow the historian to judge what is important and what is not. As a group we decided that the animals on the checks were irrelevant and had no impact on the story. We used our own personal biases to deem something as not important, which can lead to conflict.