Why It’s So Hard for Us to Subtract
Peoples & Things
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The Lego Bridge
In the book, you go through a bunch of different experiments to kind of get at where this is coming from. But can you just give us a taste of like one or two of the experiments you ran to try to uncover this? Well, I mean, we'll stay with Legos for the first one. We created a Lego example where basically you're protecting a storm trooper from getting crushed by a Masonry block. And one way to solve it is to add eight Legos. Another way to solves it is to remove one Lego and you we gave people money to do that. So when they added in that case, it was proof that they didn't think not necessarily they thought it
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