Posted on 04/15/2021 7:03:05 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Across a series of studies that we published this month in the journal Nature, we demonstrated that people tend to overlook the option to subtract parts, when asked to change or improve something. We asked research participants to make changes to designs, essays, recipes, itineraries, structures and even miniature-golf holes. Our studies show that people’s first instinct is to change things by adding. When they are able and willing to think a little longer, they are perfectly capable of finding subtractive changes. But they usually don’t think longer. They quickly identify an additive idea that is good enough, put it into action and move on.
Our experiments revealed that asking “What can I add?” appears to be a cognitive default.
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LOL, it seems like there is ALWAYS time to make something longer, but NEVER time to jettison something over the side!
LOL, no kidding!
I understand what you are implying. And in this case I would consider the one mechanical manual cable to be less parts than than a fly by wire automatic climate system. While there are no moving mechanical parts, there are a whole bunch of digital parts and wires to fail. :)
I did change out a lot of those flexible push/pull cables! But they were caveman simple.
Yeah, but I bet you also remember OS’s that were less than 10MB and came on Floppy Disks. Current Windows directory on my computer is 38.3GB, and has over 416K Files and 140K Folders. Is the current iteration of Windows REALLY 3,830 times better than Windows 3.1?
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this is such an interesting study as it certainly pertains to most areas of human decision making. Esp: govt... it just expands lol
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