Talk:Counterintuitive
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Stupid examples
[edit]This article is full of stupid examples. Does it have any value? Roger (talk) 06:09, 7 May 2014 (UTC)
"That water vapor is lighter than air and is the reason clouds float and barometers work.[8]" The article footnoted, http://www.atmos.umd.edu/~stevenb/vapor/, is really interesting but says absolutely nothing about the relative density of water vapor vs air, what makes clouds float, or anything about how barometers work. Bhugh (talk) 07:12, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
START ALL OVER.
"Nevertheless counter-intuitive concepts are psychologically more preferred than intuitive concepts[2] like in Von Restorff effect."
This is about as bad as it gets. Someone knowledgeable needs to start all over with this one. --Landrum Kelly Landrumkelly (talk) 17:48, 8 November 2014 (UTC)
Thinking about it a little more I added a cleanup/re-write tag to the main article. It really does need to be re-thought from the start.
What might be most helpful is if we were able to find some actual published articles or the like that would give some structure and context to the whole idea of counterintuitive-ness. We need a better structure to hang the whole article on that just various random thoughts that a few wikipedia editors have had over the years. Bhugh (talk) 07:47, 18 January 2018 (UTC)