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These beliefs are said to be foundational — they are refined throughout development, but they are remarkably resistant to erasure, even when experience and science education contradicts them. For example, Michael McCloskey[1] et al.^[1] found that most people expect that a ball rolling out of a curved tube will adopt a curved trajectory^[2]. McCloskey found the same result in undergraduate physics students.

Found in Bloom et al., "Childhood Origins of Adult Resistance to Science".

Omphaloscope talk 16:58, 11 March 2008 (UTC)