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I'm all up for being corrected if I'm wrong in my laguage somehow, but that article seems to be 100% in line with my understanding. What do you find to be wrong?
Like the article says in the first sentence, heuristics "is any approach to problem solving that employs a pragmatic method". Looking at fractions and assuming that the big number is larger is not a pragmatic method, it's a completely smoothbrain approach. I can't even comprehend how you think that's a good approach to fractions. It's just flummoxing.
If somebody uses a heuristic that’s flat-out wrong, is it no longer a heuristic?
I believe that's the jist of it. Heuristic is a way to get a roughly correct answer to a specific problem. If it doesn't provide a response that stays in the same ballpark of the real solution to the problem it's not heuristic, it's just a wrong train of thought.