I don’t want to generalize from one example, but I’m sharing my personal experience in the hopes that somebody else will follow me and we can collect at least some small evidence.
I have a Ph.D. in theoretical physics (meaning I’m at ease with simple math), but when I first encoutered the Allais paradox my first gut answer was 1A & 2B, even though I could immediately identify that something was wrong with this choice. I mean: I knew that my anwer was inconsistent, but I still had to make a conscious effort to persuade myself. To be honest, it’s still like this every time I read about the paradox again: I know what the rational answer is, but the irrational one still makes me feel more confortable.
Concluding, in my case there’s definitley something beyond computational complexity at work.
I don’t want to generalize from one example, but I’m sharing my personal experience in the hopes that somebody else will follow me and we can collect at least some small evidence. I have a Ph.D. in theoretical physics (meaning I’m at ease with simple math), but when I first encoutered the Allais paradox my first gut answer was 1A & 2B, even though I could immediately identify that something was wrong with this choice. I mean: I knew that my anwer was inconsistent, but I still had to make a conscious effort to persuade myself. To be honest, it’s still like this every time I read about the paradox again: I know what the rational answer is, but the irrational one still makes me feel more confortable. Concluding, in my case there’s definitley something beyond computational complexity at work.