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You'd be surprised at how many things we do without understanding the causality behind them.

I don't think you'd call those superstition.

eg. https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22730370-400-how-does...

Most people would be surprised, but I’m happy to assert most of the things we do with an expectation of causal effect are superstitions.

While people don’t generally understand bikes [0], in this case superstition would be more about people building them like in any of the [0] illustrations (or e.g. saying “I need suspension/carbon fibre frame” without knowing what those are for) rather than not being aware of how the laws of motion stop it falling over — except for bikes with trick steering, average people aren’t even going to bother asserting a causal mechanism for motion: https://youtu.be/9cNmUNHSBac

[0] https://momentummag.com/can-tell-whats-wrong-bicycles/

I bet you didn't expect them to double down with "actually i do think bikes and most things we do are superstition"

Specific aspects of bikes, not bikes in general. Hnfong may yet convince me I’m wrong.

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