Why is it a non-central example when this is, in fact, about commercial airplane travel where you will be moving fastest at cruising altitude and that is when you’re allowed to unbuckle and move about the cabin?
I think I have that intuition because the great majority of seatbelt unbucklings in my experience happen while traveling at a speed of zero (because they’re in cars, not planes). The sentence has no cues to indicate the unusual context of being in a plane (and in fact, figuring that out is the point of the example). So my mental process reading that sentence is “that’s obviously false” → “hmm, wonder if I’m missing something” → “oh, maybe in a plane?” and the first step there seems a lot more reliable (in other reasoners as well, not just me) than the second or third.
Why is it a non-central example when this is, in fact, about commercial airplane travel where you will be moving fastest at cruising altitude and that is when you’re allowed to unbuckle and move about the cabin?
I think I have that intuition because the great majority of seatbelt unbucklings in my experience happen while traveling at a speed of zero (because they’re in cars, not planes). The sentence has no cues to indicate the unusual context of being in a plane (and in fact, figuring that out is the point of the example). So my mental process reading that sentence is “that’s obviously false” → “hmm, wonder if I’m missing something” → “oh, maybe in a plane?” and the first step there seems a lot more reliable (in other reasoners as well, not just me) than the second or third.