> After learning how microeconomics/"price theory" explains how prices emerge in markets, it can be hard to discuss with people who don't understand the mechanisms.
AP Physics is learning that a perfectly spherical cow does X.
Common sense is realizing perfectly spherical cows don't exist, and that certain things are overly simplified or more chaotic than theorists would sometimes like to admit.
But then wisdom is recognizing it's AP Physics, not common sense, that put a cow on the Moon.
There may not be perfectly spherical cows in the real world, but then real cows will also do X, to the extent their non-perfect-spheriness doesn't interfere with it. Theorists don't simplify for the sake of simplifying, they're trying to study specific components of the whole in isolation. Yes, it's important to not confuse a component for the whole thing, but then it's also important to know the most impactful components and how they behave.
AP Physics is learning that a perfectly spherical cow does X.
Common sense is realizing perfectly spherical cows don't exist, and that certain things are overly simplified or more chaotic than theorists would sometimes like to admit.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_economicus