The Ledger, every show
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Klein: Research shows group brainstorming fails to yield more innovative ideas
“The research on like brainstorming, we're all brainstorming together. The research shows that brainstorming does not produce more ideas and more innovative ideas.”
Klein: Research shows using a devil's advocate produces significantly worse outcomes
“I'm only aware of one study that tried to evaluate the effect of a devil's advocate to see if it had an effect, and they got a significant result. It was significantly worse than not using a devil's advocate.”
Klein: Pre-mortems reduce overconfidence significantly more than listing pros and cons
“Listing pros and cons are just cons. Reduced confidence, but the premortem reduced confidence more than any of the other techniques we measured.”
Klein: Researchers Find Scientists Use 'Knowledge Shields' to Dismiss Anomalies
“But the researchers who have investigated this find that scientists do the same thing. They have something that's called knowledge shields the way all of us do. That, that a variety of techniques for explaining away inconvenient data and anomalies.”
Klein: Half-Day ShadowBox Training Boosts Expert Alignment by 25%
“We show that people's match to the experts increases by about 25% in just a half a day of training.”
Klein: Teams in a garden path study failed to surface collective doubts
“And we once did a study where we had four-person teams going through an exercise, and it's called a garden path exercise, where we introduced something at the beginning that made it seem that certain thing was going to happen, and everybody was preparing for i…”