Are You Good at Solving Novel Problems?

When i was at northwestern, spending some time with a woman named dietri gentner, who's one of the world's experts in analogical problem solving. She and her colleagues created a test whether students are good at solving novel problems. And what she basically found was that most of the students were good at solving problems that looked like things that were very familiar to them from their major. Their problem solving seals were very narrow. They weren't recognizing similar problems in other areas. The exception to that was these students in this programme where they had no major. But when i went around and talked to her colleagues, they would say, oh, we don't like that programme, because those kids