Interesting. This sounds like its related to triggering "system 2" as Kahneman would call it in "Thinking, Fast and Slow" Experimenters recruited 40 Prince

Interesting. This sounds like its related to triggering "system 2" as Kahneman would call it in "Thinking, Fast and Slow" Experimenters recruited 40 Princeton students to take the CRT [Shane Frederick's Cognitive Reflection Test]. Half of them saw the puzzles in a small font in washed-out gray print. The puzzles were legible, but the font induced cognitive strain. The results tell a clear story: 90% of the students who saw the CRT in normal font made at least one mistake in the test, but the proportion dropped to 35% when the font was barely legible. You read this correctly: performance was better with the bad font. Cognitive strain, whatever its source, mobilizes System 2 [slow, conscious, laborious thinking], which is more likely to reject the intuitive answer suggested by System 1 [the immediate, unreflective thinking by which we make most of our minute-to-minute judgments].[1] [1] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8867651-the-experimenters-recruited-40-princeton-students-to-take-the-crt https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8867651-the-experimenters-r...