This is great feedback, thanks! I added another example based off what you said.
For how obvious the first one, at least two folks I asked (not from this community) didn’t think it was a baby initially (though one is non-native english and didn’t know “2 birds of a feather” and assumed “our company” meant “the singers and their partner”). Neither are parents.
I did select these because they caused confusion in myself when I heard/saw them years ago, but they were “in the wild” instead of in a post on noticing confusion.
I did want a post I could link [non rationalist friends] to that’s a more fun intro to noticing confusion, so more regular members might not benefit!
What confusion?
… but based on you having presented it as an “exercise”, the obvious prior is that it’s anything but that. Otherwise it wouldn’t be interesting.
Unless you’re being tricksy, of course, so we have to leave some probability for it being that.
Hmm. A baby? That’s fairly common in songs.
Oh, OK, it’s about a baby. Unless, of course, it’s more tricksiness.
But from there on it’s just looking for confirmation.
Oh, it’s totally a baby. Although that may be more obvious if you’re a parent.
And then more and more gets piled on.
This is great feedback, thanks! I added another example based off what you said.
For how obvious the first one, at least two folks I asked (not from this community) didn’t think it was a baby initially (though one is non-native english and didn’t know “2 birds of a feather” and assumed “our company” meant “the singers and their partner”). Neither are parents.
I did select these because they caused confusion in myself when I heard/saw them years ago, but they were “in the wild” instead of in a post on noticing confusion.
I did want a post I could link [non rationalist friends] to that’s a more fun intro to noticing confusion, so more regular members might not benefit!