What's the simplest thing humans are too dumb to grasp? - eviltoast

You ever see a dog that’s got its leash tangled the long way round a table leg, and it just cannot grasp what the problem is or how to fix it? It can see all the components laid out in front of it, but it’s never going to make the connection.

Obviously some dog breeds are smarter than others, ditto individual dogs - but you get the concept.

Is there an equivalent for humans? What ridiculously simple concept would have aliens facetentacling as they see us stumble around and utterly fail to reason about it?

  • pHr34kY@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    You get off the line to get across the intersection so that everyone queued behind you can get across before the light turns red again.

    I’m amazed that so many people fail to realise that there is a solid time penalty for dawdling off the line.

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      11 months ago

      I’m not dawdling off the line though. I’m just not going 10 over the speed limit like this guy in the lifted truck wants.