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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wofano Wotanto" data-source="post: 9276567" data-attributes="member: 7044704">Call it learned early in life, then.  The first few years of school are "fundamental" to me (unless you were raised by wolves or otherwise just didn't experience early schooling) and I wasn't trying to use it in a clinical sense.  Your case does support the contention that what you start with (both in gaming and in school) seems to influence preferences going forward regardless.Good, no.  But even animals have been shown to be aware of quantity as a concept, and respond more strongly to larger quantities in either positive or negative ways depending on context.  Most every animal prefers larger amounts of their preferred food, and dislikes larger amounts of potential predators, for ex.  "High is more meaningful" is hardwired to at least some degree, even in humans - but we're better at redefining positives and negatives or we'd have more agreement on (say) ascending versus descending armor class.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />We also tend to respond to extremes in numerical spreads, with a bias toward recalling those ones and twenties on a d20 roll while largely forgetting how many (say) threes or twelves we rolled.  I remember one of my old roomies doing postgrad studies on the psychology of choosing lottery numbers that showed that skew tendency really clearly.</blockquote>

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