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[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

This doesn't really have anything to do with critical thinking, it's just that our brains work on estimations and approximations, although experience can balance it out.

Try this: draw a martini glass (inverted cone), and draw a line where you think it would be half full.

It will be wrong. Numberphile - Cones are messed up (YT)

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

That's more an argument in semantics. Developmental psych actually has this as a brain development stage, with the later stages being about critical thinking even if the earlier phase doesn't seem so. Experiments were done where children of various ages were tested on benchmarks such as volume and kids under a certain age failed almost universally (I forget the age, something like 5 or 6) in the same way that infants lack object permanence. Later, at 9 and around 13 (?) the same framework argues that the brain gets basic and advanced problem solving and critical thinking, although even that theory admits plenty of people skip that last milestone.

Your point is more a common logical (sensory?) fallacy that plenty of adults fall into, but isn't necessarily the same thing. At least, I think it is, I'm a bit busy right now to check and it's bad enough I'm typing this out instead of taking care of my own toddler, lol.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Fair, good point :)

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

People who bought cola before won't stop anyway. That has little to do with the shape

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Cones are like runescape leveling, heard

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Psst! Your comment has a typo that makes the joke not work. Just letting you know :)

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