Nornagest comments on Open thread, July 21-27, 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 28 July 2014 06:21:12PM 1 point [-]

(It's A, right?)

investigate people's different intuitions of physics.

To some extent, 'folk physics' has already been studied a fair bit. For example, see the links at the end of http://lesswrong.com/lw/khd/confound_it_correlation_is_usually_not_causation/ about a quiz designed to measure how well people understand Newtonian mechanics and to what extent they succumb to incorrect folk physics beliefs.

Comment author: Nornagest 28 July 2014 06:37:06PM 0 points [-]

The link to Halloun & Hestenes 1985 no longer seems to be valid, although the 1992 paper still seems to be good.

Is this the same paper?

Comment author: gwern 28 July 2014 06:54:30PM 0 points [-]

That was fast. But no, that seems to be an earlier paper, I meant http://generative.edb.utexas.edu/classes/knl2011fall/Halloun_Hestenes_FCI.pdf