Are We Born Able To Read A Gas Gauge? [Car Science]

[RKC Auto News]

Almost all the analog instruments on your car's dashboard– speedometer, gas gauge, tachometer, temperature gauge–*rely on a fundamental concept known as the number line. We're so used to the concept of a series of numbers regularly mapped onto a space (linear or otherwise) that the common thinking is that it's just built into our brains. But a new study with an indigenous group in Papua New Guinea suggests otherwise. More »



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