You're looking at Less Wrong's discussion board. This includes all posts, including those that haven't been promoted to the front page yet. For more information, see About Less Wrong.

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

4 Post author: polymathwannabe 21 July 2014 01:15PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (160)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

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