Thursday, 12 December 2024

It takes two to think

quote [ improvisational science ]

This is from a podcast series by two bioinformatics people on the creative "night science" aspects of research work. The podcast is a little chatty, but the actual paper is subcscriber-only.

Gist: groups from 3 people might be less creative than just 2 people conversing.
[SFW] [science & technology] [+1 Interesting]
[by Paracetamol@7:31pmGMT]

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TimmoW said @ 9:27pm GMT on 12th Dec
Makes total sense to me. Two people can be cooperative or adversarial. You can go back and forth, explore new ideas, shred each other's ideas, etc.

A third person will lead to the group defaulting to more 'cooperate' and less 'evaluate'. There's no space for an adversarial position in a group of 3; there'll be more of a 2:1 dynamic which will lead to the 2 group dominating an ideaspace.

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