Re:As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anom...
by ben_w on Monday February 06, 2023 @05:30AM
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> or absurdly incompetent
This is your error.
There is no "absurdity" needed, as we didn't evolve for accurately perceiving phenomena seen while manoeuvring in transsonic flight, and we don't develop a perfect "common sense" for them either.
I'm not going to try to come up with something counterintuitive about flight, because I don't even do flight simulators.
But I can say this general category of us doing things we didn't evolve for is also why so many people — even smart people — struggle with the Monty Hall paradox, even though it's fairly simple probability.
This is your error.
There is no "absurdity" needed, as we didn't evolve for accurately perceiving phenomena seen while manoeuvring in transsonic flight, and we don't develop a perfect "common sense" for them either.
I'm not going to try to come up with something counterintuitive about flight, because I don't even do flight simulators.
But I can say this general category of us doing things we didn't evolve for is also why so many people — even smart people — struggle with the Monty Hall paradox, even though it's fairly simple probability.