The same goes for a myriad of mobilized gestures that can get confusing, even for power users. Do I use the three-finger double-tap or the two-finger double-tap to zoom? (It’s the latter — a three-finger double-tap pulls up the dictionary.) After playing around with the system for a while, I found myself regularly going back to System Preferences to disable new touchpad features because I simply couldn’t keep them straight.
Hayley Tsukayama is going through some of the same things I did with Lion. I turned off “natural” scrolling too, but turned it back on and forced myself to use it for week. It’s making more sense to me now, so I’m leaving it on. This is a good overview of how some of Lion’s changes affect how we interact with the OS.