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Science & Thought Experiments
Schrรถdinger's cat, Pavlov's dogs, Occam's razor โ concise mental models that travel far outside the lab and quietly run modern arguments.
11 entries
Black Swan
A rare, high-impact event that's only obvious in hindsight.
Butterfly Effect
Tiny changes in initial conditions can lead to wildly different outcomes.
Murphy's Law
Anything that can go wrong, will.
Occam's Razor
When several explanations fit, prefer the simplest one.
Pavlov's Dogs
An automatic, conditioned response to a cue โ usually one you didn't choose.
Placebo Effect
A real change in a person caused by belief alone, without any active treatment.
Schrรถdinger's Cat
Something held in two contradictory states at once until you actually check.
Turing Test
A test of whether a machine can converse indistinguishably from a human.
Hanlon's Razor
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Observer Effect
The act of measuring something changes the thing being measured.
Hawthorne Effect
People behave differently when they know they're being studied.