One advantage of having both a weak intuitive model and a weak analytical model is that you can notice where there are mismatches in their predictions and flag them as places where you’re confused.
This helps with making predictions about specific cases. In cases where your intuitive naive physics and your s2 sense of “objects in motion tend to remain in motion” make the same prediction, they’re usually right. In cases where they disagree, you now have a trigger to look into the case in a more careful, detailed way rather than relying on either cached model.
It also helps with upgrading your models. Instead of waiting to be surprised by reality when it contradicts what your model predicted, you can notice as soon as your intuitive and analytical models disagree with each other and look for ways to improve them.
One advantage of having both a weak intuitive model and a weak analytical model is that you can notice where there are mismatches in their predictions and flag them as places where you’re confused.
This helps with making predictions about specific cases. In cases where your intuitive naive physics and your s2 sense of “objects in motion tend to remain in motion” make the same prediction, they’re usually right. In cases where they disagree, you now have a trigger to look into the case in a more careful, detailed way rather than relying on either cached model.
It also helps with upgrading your models. Instead of waiting to be surprised by reality when it contradicts what your model predicted, you can notice as soon as your intuitive and analytical models disagree with each other and look for ways to improve them.