Probably not as unknown, but the smell in pools that I've always associated with chlorine is in fact the smell of some product when chlorine react with urine.
I wonder what other falsehoods I believe along the same lines. I'm sure there are plenty in the realm of software/hardware.
On the other hand, is there any difference between this kind of misconception and others? I feel there is. The observed correlation is very strong, and the wrong causal relationship is made based on assumptions that are extremely common. We sniff a thing, and what we sense is what we call that thing's smell. But again, this is probably a wrong conclusion very often (depending on how you want to define a "thing's smell"). If I smell a book, is it actually the book that smells or some kind of organic thing that grows on the paper? Is it meaningful to separate the two? </saturday morning philosophizing>
I wonder what other falsehoods I believe along the same lines. I'm sure there are plenty in the realm of software/hardware.
On the other hand, is there any difference between this kind of misconception and others? I feel there is. The observed correlation is very strong, and the wrong causal relationship is made based on assumptions that are extremely common. We sniff a thing, and what we sense is what we call that thing's smell. But again, this is probably a wrong conclusion very often (depending on how you want to define a "thing's smell"). If I smell a book, is it actually the book that smells or some kind of organic thing that grows on the paper? Is it meaningful to separate the two? </saturday morning philosophizing>
0: https://waterandhealth.org/healthy-pools/busting-chlorine-sw...