Re:Human survival trait (Score 1)

Or perhaps this isn't a biological trait in humans at all. The human children subjects that this study used have spent years flicking light switches, using remote controls for television sets, avoiding hot irons and spinning fans, and otherwise obeying all sorts of random magical rules imposed by adults. Maybe long before this experiment, they learned not to trust their knowledge of physics and just to do what they're shown/told. Just one more physchological study that doesn't actually show what it claims (link is to Feynman's "Cargo-Cult-Science").