Obviously, on one level this is deeply counter-intuitive.
The two main sanctions that could hit Greece would be deeply counter-productive if applied.
For a league that was struggling to increase scoring (and still is to this day), the rule seemed deeply counter-productive, and fans grew to hate it.
The sight of one of the killers with his hands drenched in blood was chilling, so the realisation that a few people did not feel the same horror is deeply counter-intuitive.
There seems something deeply counter-intuitive about this incarnation of human rights claims, rooted not in protecting such sacred freedoms as the right to life or a private and family life, but mitigating loss of profit.
The authors make the sobering point that mortality rates for doctors vary so much that, even if he had been constantly monitored, Harold Shipman (a British doctor who murdered at least 200 patients) would have racked up a body-count of several dozen before coming to official attention.The central problem, as the authors admit, is that numbers can often be deeply counter-intuitive.
It seems deeply counter-intuitive to complain that a city is too successful: that too many graduates move there, that too many migrants find work there, that too many people want to live there and get their own chance to moan about it being overcrowded.
This resistance turns on precisely the kinds of implications indicated above, and their often radical, deeply counter-intuitive, and puzzling consequences.
Meanwhile, enough government funding hasn't been used to counter "deeply-entrenched" patterns at the elementary, high school, and university level that discourage women from pursuing STEM careers, Lahey says.
Such advice may seem facile, but it runs counter to deeply ingrained assumptions about pop musicians.
We don't like to acknowledge this, of course, not only because it runs counter to deeply held beliefs about hard work but because it carries with it a lot of unseemly anti-intellectual baggage.
