Seeing from outside

Ethan Zuckerman blogs a talk by Jonah Lehrer at Poptech.

When we’ve got hard problems, we turn them over to experts. That might be the wrong thing to do, Lehrer suggests. … Lehrer ends on this intriguing idea: “Problems are intractable because we didn’t see them from the outside."

Lehrer cites some fascinating research to support this: two groups are given a problem to solve. Their performance is s...
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