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People were asked to look at the knots, two at a time, and point to the strongest one. Can you guess which knot is strongest? Credit: Khamar Hopkins/Johns Hopkins University. The scene is ...

The study team started by showing participants four knots of different strengths and asking them to pick the strongest between two in each quartet. The participants failed at that. They were shown ...

Researchers showed people pictures of two knots and asked them to point to the strongest one. They couldn't. They showed people videos of each knot, where the knots spin slowly so they could get a ...

We tie our shoes, we put on neckties, we wrestle with power cords. Yet despite deep familiarity with knots, most people cannot tell a weak knot from a strong one by looking at them, research finds.

The work, newly published in the cognitive science journal Open Mind, reveals a new blind spot in our physical reasoning. Which knot is strongest? The researchers showed participants four knots that ...

People were asked to look at the knots, two at a time, and point to the strongest one. The strongest is A, the reef knot. We tie our shoes, we put on neckties, we wrestle with power cords.