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approaching the end of the chapter! you start to see why it helps to give your secret agency office a built-in urgent care.
approaching the end of the chapter! you start to see why it helps to give your secret agency office a built-in urgent care.
What’s the expected answer to give to the balloon question? Does saying “the balloon goes forwards when you brake” mean that you’re losing touch with physics, or that you’re keeping touch with commonsense intuition? Or does the answer not matter, and the point of the exercise is to contemplate the question, take your mind off Inspired weirdshit, and acknowledge that science doesn’t necessarily work the way you personally feel like it should work?
Close to the second one! The idea is to ask someone a (preferably science-y) question that they’re likely to have some misconception about, then see how they respond when told they’re wrong. If they get worked up about it, that’s a concern. If they double down , that’s even more of a concern. And if god forbid they somehow manage to prove themselves *right*, that’s an emergency.
Obsessed actually with unmada field where nothing is different except balloon goes towards you when you brake