Reddit reviews Everything Is Obvious: *Once You Know the Answer

Think of how many times you're on reddit, click a comment thread and see "this headline is exaggerated/sensationalist/inaccurate." It could be that views of Congress themselves are exaggerated/sensationalist/inaccurate, so reports like this are valuable.

Relevant: Everything Is Obvious -- Once You Know the Answer

Har har. http://www.amazon.com/Everything-Is-Obvious-Once-Answer/dp/0385531680

But seriously. We would have no idea that three was the largest number of objects we could mentally represent without counting unless we studied it. How is it obvious at all that babies would lose all sense of quantity after three objects (treating four objects just like two, or even one)?

Also, I recommend this recent book by Duncan Watts, Everything is Obvious: *Once You Know the Anwer. The book does a great job explaining that the often invoked "common sense" does not explain nearly as much of human behavior as people like to claim. Social science, when pursued rigorously, is a very powerful tool for making sense of social action.

Moreover, Duncan Watts is a terrific ambassador for the discipline of sociology , as he does come from a science background (he received his PhD in applied mathematics from Cornell), yet takes sociology very seriously. He changed the course of his career, because he realized that the problems that he found most interesting and worthwhile were social in nature

I think you'd like this book

There is no such thing as common sense