non-intuitive

The resulting interview is full of fresh, non-intuitive insights and shines light on how the human brain is often hard-wired for irrational action when it comes to money.

Chris Martenson, Ph.D.: Dan Ariely Decodes Why Humans Are Hard-Wired to Inflate Ph.D. Chris Martenson 2011

Where the advice is really helpful is when it addresses the non-intuitive things.

Balloon Juice » 2009 » June 2009

I got quite a start when I clicked on the link to have the immortal tones of Mr R.Z. blasting out at me -- lucky, though, as it turned out, otherwise I would not have realised it was something to which one could listen (being a bit non-intuitive on the audio front).

Culture Maxine 2009

The resulting interview is full of fresh, non-intuitive insights and shines light on how the human brain is often hard-wired for irrational action when it comes to money.

Chris Martenson, Ph.D.: Dan Ariely Decodes Why Humans Are Hard-Wired to Inflate Ph.D. Chris Martenson 2011

I find it non-intuitive when I have to click on "Next" to see older posts and then "Previous" to see newer posts.

Previously Newer 2010

I find it non-intuitive when I have to click on "Next" to see older posts and then "Previous" to see newer posts.

Archive 2010-05-01 2010

Robert Wright's great book, Nonzero, which I have referenced before, lays out a somewhat non-intuitive but persuasive case that humans have a subtle instinct to recognize positive-sum solutions, and that's what has (inevitably, in his telling) driven human progress forward over time.

Eat your vegetables 2010

The Productivity 501 weblog asked several work-at-homers what the most important, non-intuitive piece of advice they had for anyone setting up a home office.

Best Non-Obvious Tip for Setting Up a Home Office? | Lifehacker Australia 2008

With even modest scrutiny, the essence of what makes something alive quickly becomes non-intuitive when we are presented with forms that defy easy categorization, such as crystallized virus capsules or bacterial spores.

Jeff Schweitzer: Redefining Life: God Need Not Apply 2010

Yet this correspondence is more than intuitive, as Leibniz employs architectural analogies to characterize the formal — that is, non-intuitive — properties of the monad.

Club Monad 2008