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Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink + James Surowiecki’s The Wisdom Of Crowds

— What Do We Mean When We Talk About Intuition? – by James Surowiecki [...] This suggests that the real challenge is figuring out which problems can be solved by rapid cognition and which are better solved by a calculating, … Continue reading

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The distinction between puzzles and mysteries.

Blink author Malcolm Gladwell, via Boing Boing: Mysteries require judgments and the assessment of uncertainty, and the hard part is not that we have too little information but that we have too much. [...] The distinction is not trivial… If … Continue reading

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