What thriller and/or mystery TV series / movies / books have people engaging in reasoning that actually makes sense?
Almost every example I can think of reminds me a bit of how little kids reason, e.g., in Jack Reacher, they're constantly trying to show how smart Reacher is with little kid reasoning, like when he "smartly" concludes that the bad guys didn't find what they were looking for because some place was trashed. Sure, or maybe they did and were checking if there was more, were mad, etc.
I got some great (and not great) answers to https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1570817298478542855 and it seems like there should be more positive examples here since it should be easier to spot these kinds of reasoning errors than errors in things that require even semi-specialized expertise, e.g., you can tell the director of Wind River (a movie I like, BTW) grew up somewhere warm since a bunch of details are obviously wrong to anyone who's been outside in the cold, which seems harder to spot than the Jack Reacher stuff.
@danluu I think it is hard to show complex reasoning, but it looks kinda unconvincing if you have your wizard character just say “oh the answer is 7”
@danluu Sherlock tried to show this with animations of clues, but I did not find it personally convincing. Reading the Sherlock books, often the reasoning is kept to the end and then explained, which doesn’t work on tv.
@robryk @psn @danluu I feel Sherlock’s reasoning doesn’t really hold up. It only works because author is on his side https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKQOk5UlQSc