melvin  wrote or quoted:

[Door/Goat/Car puzzle]

> Some psychologists have studied in detail what leads people to the
> right or wrong conclusion and it would be interesting if one could do
> a study to tie in evolutionary pressures in intelligence to shed light
> on why the approaches to this problem are so divergent or if certain
> types of thinking though wrong still have an evolutionary benifit
> which outweighs the negative effects of incorrect reasoning.

The benefit is likely to be that resources spent on getting esoteric
mental apparatus to work well on problems they have not been well trained
on - and which ancestors rarely encountered - is better spent elsewhere.
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