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SUMMARY:Public talk: Duncan Watts - The Myth of Common Sense: Why Everythi
 ng That Seems Obvious Isn't  - Duncan Watts\, Microsoft Research
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CONTACT:Cambridge-INET Institute\, Faculty of Economics
DESCRIPTION:Title: "The Myth of Common Sense: Why Everything That Seems Ob
 vious Isn't"\n\nCommon sense is always a good thing\, isn't it?  Maybe not
 . Although common sense is extremely useful for dealing with everyday prob
 lem solving\, when applied to the kind of large-scale problems that arise 
 in government\, business\, policy\, and marketing\, it can suffer from sys
 tematic failures.  Nevertheless\, because of the way we learn from history
 \, these failures are rarely apparent to us.  Fortunately\, learning to su
 spect one's own common sense can lead to other\, more reliable approaches.
LOCATION:McCrum Lecture Theatre\, Corpus Christi College\,Cambridge
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