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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, September 09 2012 @ 12:58 PM EDT

After a person experiences touching something hot and learns that metal turns red and glows when it gets hot enough:

    When they see red glowing metal
Are they more likely:
    To touch said object
or
    To not touch said object
If you're correct that common sense most often gives the wrong answer, then most often people would still touch the object and burn themselves.

The above is a very simple example. Where everyone that's going to make the decision has the same perspective and same information available from which to decide. When one starts getting into more complicated situations, before one can understand the "common sense that applied" one must first understand the informational variables that the "one making the common sense choice" had available before choosing.

It would be interesting to know where your opinion that common sense most often gives the wrong answer originated from. Perhaps you once read a study that examined "common sense applied" in detail?

RAS

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