- Our brains are wired to think logarithmically instead of linearly: Children, when asked what number is halfway between 1 and 9, intuitively think it's 3. This attention to relative rather than absolute differences is an evolutionary adaptation. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ben-thomas/whats-halfway-between-1-and-9-kids-and-scientists-say-3_b_1982920.html 20 comments cogsci
- Our brains are wired to think logarithmically instead of linearly: Children, when asked what number is halfway between 1 and 9, intuitively think it's 3. This attention to relative rather than absolute differences is an evolutionary adaptation. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ben-thomas/whats-halfway-between-1-and-9-kids-and-scientists-say-3_b_1982920.html 794 comments science
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- What number is halfway between 1 and 9? Is it 5 — or 3? | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/thinking-logarithmically-1005.html 132 comments
- E. Lee Lady: Do Numbers and Other Mathematical Entities Really Exist? http://www.math.hawaii.edu/~lee/exist.html 10 comments
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- Episode Archive | Radiolab | WNYC Studios http://www.radiolab.org/2009/nov/30/innate-numbers/ 3 comments
- Fractals & the Fractal Dimension http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/psychology/cogsci/chaos/workshop/Fractals.html 3 comments
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