Referring to the obstacles to logic (see pp. 233-235) of centration, appearance, static reasoning, and/or irreversibility, why might otherwise logical adults (hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions) have engaged in preoperational thinking as they made and overpaid for their beverage selections at Qwest Field?

People are deceptive regarding the drink size.

Explanation:

It is important to indicate that all the people are not considering all the aspects of their life logically. Sometimes heuristics are implied by a logical person which can result into the specific observations as indicated above.

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