There is something about numbers that makes people’s brains stop working. This is common in medicine, where reflexively treating a lab abnormality without thinking an iota about the patient or even about the ground truth — is this number here “real” or is it a blood collection/lab analysis/data entry error? — is a phase most doctors go through and some never leave. Call it video game brain: confusing the hardcoded information of an RPG stat or a FPS health bar with more malleable values we get from physical measurements.