The Toilet Door

So I need to come up with a name for a phenomena I've observed.

Basically I tell my students at the start of the practical the same things. Check the marking scheme, don't forget to talk about errors, work quickly.

Inevitably they ignore me and forgot to talk about errors, so I started telling the students. Check the marking scheme, don't forget to talk about errors, work quickly. I tell all the other students this and they usually fail, so maybe you'll be different.

Inevitably they think I'm joking or something, and they do poorly. So I started telling the students. Check the marking scheme, don't forget to talk about errors, work quickly. I tell all the other students this and they usually fail, and I tell them what I've just told you now and they usually fail, so maybe you'll be different.

So we can really just state it's

Message Content. + self referencing warning

I need to print something like that out for my students and just show them what happens 🙂