Deduction 4: Habit

15, November, 2023

Rated: ⭐⚝⚝

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Everything in life wants to operate at as low of an amount of energy as possible. From human and animals, who always want to rest, to atom, which wants to reach noble gas configuration. This is within reason of course.

Even with high energy people, they tend to rely on habit of previous actions to save their energy (thinking). Think of a trained racer, he would immediately know what to do when a curve comes, based on his training, so when the time comes, he can act perfectly without thinking.

With this being said, we can observe that people awkwardly doing something because they’re new to something. In a case that I’m talking about, the detective happened to be in the same car as the thieves. He deduced that the car was just stolen because the driver is not used to its system.

The cigarette compartment are full of coins because the owner doesn’t smoke so he left coins there. The thief didn’t know and acted according to his habit and left the ashes there on top of the coins. No normal person would do that.

With the car model being foreign instead of domestic, the operating system is different from what he used to, so he kept using the windshield wiper, when he meant to use the turning signal.

He also acted awkwardly when using the hand switch, and mismanaging distance because the right side of the car (passenger side) kept hitting the side of the road.

Lastly, he even checked if the driver know the date of expiry by pretending to mistake the number 2 and 5 on the label on the windshield.

This example shows a great amount of validation before deduction. And also the observation of habit.