2026-07-17 01:41 UTC
“People may overestimate their understanding of how objects work because they do not realize how reliant they are on extracting perceptual information directly from the world rather than from memory”
https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/bf03195929
(via @yvonnezlam@mastodon.social )
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@RuthMalan@mastodon.social 2026-07-17 02:03
This is the post @yvonnezlam@mastodon.social drew my/our attention to: ‘for years, I have been using "draw the bike" as a metaphor for "attempt to recreate your knowledge thereby revealing invisible lack of understanding" TIL there was a paper about it’ here: https://bsky.app/profile/tbabb.bsky.social/post/3mqqoqtwb7k26
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@fullywoolly@mastodon.social 2026-07-17 01:58
@RuthMalan@mastodon.social @yvonnezlam@mastodon.social reminds me of when this artists asked people to draw a bicycle and later 3d modeled many of them https://www.gianlucagimini.it/portfolio-item/velocipedia/