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Blessed Ignorance.

28-Aug-08

In the same book that I referred to last post, Gut Feelings by Gerd Gigerenzer, there is a section titled ‘Not Knowing the Rules Can Change the Rules’ in which he discusses the advantage that people unaware of the current rules have to make significant social change (p. 220-222).
He puts forth several examples of this [...]

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Obfuscation.

27-Aug-08

I’m reading a book called Gut Feelings by Gerd Gigerenzer. Fascinating.
In his prelude to the discussion on how transparency creates trust, he quotes Alan Greenspan (p 215). These are fabulous! What do ya’ think?
“If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.” - to a Congressman.
“I know you believe you [...]

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