1260

submitted 2 weeks ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to c/science_memes@mander.xyz

129 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] BussyCat@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Take a piece of paper with 3 squares drawn on it

And hand a person a picture of an apple, tomato, pepper, cucumber, pork cutlet, and mushroom and ask them to put the pictures into the squares and then label each square

Average person will definitely label a box as vegetables and put the mushrooms in it

[-] Lumidaub@feddit.org 8 points 2 weeks ago

Well if you tell me to use only three categories and one of them will obviously be "meat", then I won't put them with apples.

[-] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

One box labeled "Brown when cooked properly". Then mushrooms can go in the box with the apples and cutlets.

[-] Lumidaub@feddit.org 8 points 2 weeks ago

That sign can't stop me because I can't cook (let alone properly).

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

Box labeled "burnt to a crisp" and put everything in it.

[-] BussyCat@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Apple, tomato, peppers, and cucumbers are all fruits

Mushrooms are mushrooms

Pork is meat

But if you give the average person those it’s much more likely they will make the categories fruits, vegetables, and meat and put mushrooms in the vegetable category

[-] Vespair@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

Why are we starting this scenario with the arbitrary restriction of 3? Yes, if you give people any number of items and tell them there is a finite number of categories, they were will find a way to divide those items into three. That doesn't mean they wouldn't come up with a more compelling argument for their choices when told to divide into 4 groups.

At no point have our options ever only been "fruit or vegetable," but yeah I guess if you tell people those are their only choices of course they'll adhere. But like... I've never known anyone who though those were the only choices?

[-] BussyCat@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

The point is that may people will instinctually call mushrooms a vegetable

If we take that same example and add 4 categories and then add milk as another item I am still willing to bet the average person will put mushrooms as a vegetable and make the categories fruit vegetable dairy meat even though vegetables aren’t real and you could have a category of animal products.

Now if you only quiz the biology majors you might get a different result but in the U.S. only 38% of people are college educated and the most common major is business