Hook comments on Compartmentalization as a passive phenomenon - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Hook 26 March 2010 08:34:03PM 0 points [-]

The 32% number does seem low to me. Even if the number is more like two thirds of adults are capable of abstract reasoning, that still leaves enough people to explain the pen on the moon result.

Is compartmentalization applying concrete (and possibly incorrect?) reasoning to an area where the person making the accusation of compartmentalization thinks abstract reasoning should be used?