anti-inductive situations: forum for week of 17 October

Stretching a rubberband and calculating its stretch/force ratio. Intuitively at the beginning with a first couple of data, we may be tempted to think that the rubberband will stretch indefinitely at the same proportion until it break. But contrary to it, there's a point called stress limit, where material, stretched beyond this point, exhibits a totally different pattern of behavior (such as needing twice as much force to stretch the same length of material or something). To make things more interesting, some materials have been found to fit into our original intuition of simple linear correlation.