"Don't touch the pot because its too hot"

[KaneKungFu123]

what is it about the human mind that forces us to touch the pot for ourselves even though someone tells us it is hot. also, pretend you go into the living room of your house and your friends are all trying to figure out what is wrong with the television. the first thing you do is try to put it on yourself - even though it is obvious that it isnt going to work, its as if the human mind has to start at point A???

[kurosh]

Distrust and ego to some extent too. I think most people are morons so if they tell me the door is broken, I need to make sure they aren't being stupid and it actually is broken.

[TheWorstPlayer]

It's because you picture an event happening and then want confirmation that it will indeed happen like that. I think it ties in with our general longing for confirmation.

[diebitter]

TV set thing: Basic diagnostic reasoning. Start at a specific point and work to the solution by limiting the problem space. Nothing stupid about it.

[Slow Play Ray]

I worked at McD's in high school (shut up). Once morning, I opened, and I couldn't remember if I turned on the fryers yet, so I stuck my finger in it to see. Yup, it was already on.

[Shajen]

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I worked at McD's in high school (shut up). Once morning, I opened, and I couldn't remember if I turned on the fryers yet, so I stuck my finger in it to see. Yup, it was already on.

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Ok, this was just dumb dude. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[KaneKungFu123]

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I worked at McD's in high school (shut up). Once morning, I opened, and I couldn't remember if I turned on the fryers yet, so I stuck my finger in it to see. Yup, it was already on.

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atleast you werent sodomized.

[rusellmj]

I fix stuff for a living. If I took everyones word for what was wrong I'd still be trying to fix [censored] from 6mo. ago.

The hot stove thing I dunno. When someone tells me the stove is hot, I say "okay."

When my Mommy told me to keep away the stove I listened.

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[BradleyT]

I stuck my entire hand in a deep fryer when I worked at Hardees 15 years ago. Of course I had put 4 coats of egg batter + fried chicken coating on my hand first.

Looking back though it was a pretty retarded thing to do.

Oops I posted. Can "censored" ban me for this?

[Slow Play Ray]

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I worked at McD's in high school (shut up). Once morning, I opened, and I couldn't remember if I turned on the fryers yet, so I stuck my finger in it to see. Yup, it was already on.

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Ok, this was just dumb dude. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

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clearly.

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atleast you werent sodomized.

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yup, i've got that going for me...

[captZEEbo1]

You'd be surprised about the tv thing. Sometimes in high school, we'd all be standing outside a classroom thinking it was locked, then finally the tardee bell rings, the teacher walks up and just merely opens the door and asks why are you guys just standing out in the hall? Sometimes people are just dumb.

[Lazymeatball]

I think alot of it is ego, I follow kurosh's thinking in that I generally think other people are morons and don't take their word for it.

[swede123]

Another good example of this is when faced with waiting for an elevator, particularly one where the call button doesn't light up. You can have a good eight people standing in front of the elevator, clearly waiting for it, yet the ninth one will come up and push the button.

Swede

[Slow Play Ray]

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Another good example of this is when faced with waiting for an elevator, particularly one where the call button doesn't light up. You can have a good eight people standing in front of the elevator, clearly waiting for it, yet the ninth one will come up and push the button.

Swede

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I do this just to watch people's reactions - same reason I talk to myself in the grocery store.

[Dominic]

a fun little experiment most psychology classes do is put a sign on a park bench that says DRY PAINT. It's amusing to see how many people look at the sign aand then have to touch the bench to make sure it's dry.

[Jingleheimer]

Now make a post about how stupid a group of people are for standing outside of a classroom with a closed door but everyone incorrectly assumed the closed door was locked.

[housenuts]

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Another good example of this is when faced with waiting for an elevator, particularly one where the call button doesn't light up. You can have a good eight people standing in front of the elevator, clearly waiting for it, yet the ninth one will come up and push the button.



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this sounds like a good trick to do if you have nothing better to do. go wait by an elevator but don't push the button. other people will come and wait behind you and the elevator will never come because the button will never have been pushed. haha

[joshman1204]

been there many times before

[Ulysses]

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Another good example of this is when faced with waiting for an elevator, particularly one where the call button doesn't light up. You can have a good eight people standing in front of the elevator, clearly waiting for it, yet the ninth one will come up and push the button.



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this sounds like a good trick to do if you have nothing better to do. go wait by an elevator but don't push the button. other people will come and wait behind you and the elevator will never come because the button will never have been pushed. haha

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1: There's almost always a light that lights up.
2: When there's not, multiple people push the button.
3: People often push the button repeatedly even if lit up.
4: If someone is standing at the elevator like he is waiting and no button is lit up, I don't think he is a good trickster, I just think he is a [censored].

Wow. dumba$$ got censored.

[Ulysses]

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a fun little experiment most psychology classes do is put a sign on a park bench that says DRY PAINT. It's amusing to see how many people look at the sign aand then have to touch the bench to make sure it's dry.

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You are implying that the normal thing to do if you see a bench with a "DRY PAINT" sign on it is to just sit down. I think the normal thing to do is to check the paint, since it's not normal at all for a bench with dry paint to have a "DRY PAINT" sign on it.