‘People Are Terrible at This’: Why We Suck at Judging the Strength of Knots
The inspiration for the study came from embroidery. You dont need to touch a stack of books to judge its stability. You dont have to feel a bowling ball to guess how many pins it will knock over. A diagram of the grief knot.© CountingPine, Public domain via Wikimedia Commons But knots seem to strain our judgement mechanisms in interesting ways. The test Croom and Firestone conducted for the study was relatively simple....