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What's the simplest thing humans are too dumb to grasp? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by TheBananaKing@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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You ever see a dog that's got its leash tangled the long way round a table leg, and it just cannot grasp what the problem is or how to fix it? It can see all the components laid out in front of it, but it's never going to make the connection.

Obviously some dog breeds are smarter than others, ditto individual dogs - but you get the concept.

Is there an equivalent for humans? What ridiculously simple concept would have aliens facetentacling as they see us stumble around and utterly fail to reason about it?

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[–] MxM111@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago

Any figure rotating in 4D around random axis.

[–] wafflez@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Choosing life over taste pleasure. We don't need to commodify animals.

[–] angelsomething@lemmy.one 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Statistics and large numbers.

[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 1 points 10 months ago

I studied statistics and the Law of Large Numbers is honestly mind boggling. I mean, I understand that it's true and I've studied the proof, but it's still enormously counterintuitive. It's not surprising that anyone who isn't familiar with it (which is the vast majority of people) to have no understanding of this phenomenon at all.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_paradoxes

List of things that, at least to some people, don't work they way they'd expect.

I think that the Monty Haul problem is a good example on there.

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