So, you think you know how to ride a bike???

[Sancho]

http://www.dailyliked.net/backwards-brain-bicycle/

Riding a bicycle is a life skill we learn as kids that sticks with us for a lifetime. Once you learn it, you never forget it. But what if there was a special kind of bike that will make everything you learned useless?

You may think that I am saying nonsense, but there is actually a bike that nobody can ride unless they unlearn riding a bike. Watch the video and you’ll understand.

[arcane1]

1. Fascinating!

[rock]

2. I totally disagree with his thesis

Here's the short version. Have you ever noticed how you can go from car to car (different types, different models, different years) and have very little problem driving them. It's because for many decades now the human interface has been standard. The phrase we use for such a situation is, "intuitive design" but in fact is learned for that standard.

[Sancho]

3. Maybe, but I drive sailboats...

some have a tiller (reverse) and other a wheel. It can be very confusing.

Whatever the interface, it seems once we learn it, it's hard to unlearn.

[rock]

6. Well now, I agree 100% with those sentiments

But I really thought the guy on the tape was trying to make another point, though I did have trouble understanding what he was getting at. If he means that if you change the interface, then you have to learn the new interface. Well, that's a "Duh!". If it's a radical change then the learning will be radical. What's his point?

[jakeXT]

4. Changing from a manual to an automatic has my hands wandering to change gears

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Changing from automatic to manual lets me forget to downshift.

[William Seger]

9. I agree with his thesis

The car I bought a couple months ago has the headlight switch and the wiper controls in different places than the car I drove for 20 years. If I'm not thinking about it, I get them wrong, but if I'm thinking about it, I get it right every time. From the video, this is clearly something much deeper than that; you can't overcome it by simply thinking about it.

[jakeXT]

5. .

[Sancho]

8. Thanks

[demwing]

7. Also posted in GD

Here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026710617

with my interpretion of how this learning process could affect other behaviors, including our politics

[Scuba]

10. "Knowledge is not understanding."