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University of Cambridge > Talks.cam > Public talk: Duncan Watts > Public talk: Duncan Watts - The Myth of Common Sense: Why Everything That Seems Obvious Isn't
Public talk: Duncan Watts - The Myth of Common Sense: Why Everything That Seems Obvious Isn'tAdd to your list(s) Download to your calendar using vCal
If you have a question about this talk, please contact Cambridge-INET Institute, Faculty of Economics. If you may wish to attend please register on website as follows http://sites.google.com/site/camineteventregister/events/duncanwatts Title: “The Myth of Common Sense: Why Everything That Seems Obvious Isn’t” Common sense is always a good thing, isn’t it? Maybe not. Although common sense is extremely useful for dealing with everyday problem solving, when applied to the kind of large-scale problems that arise in government, business, policy, and marketing, it can suffer from systematic failures. Nevertheless, because of the way we learn from history, these failures are rarely apparent to us. Fortunately, learning to suspect one’s own common sense can lead to other, more reliable approaches. This talk is part of the Public talk: Duncan Watts series. This talk is included in these lists:
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