The Wastant Task - What Do You Find Amazing About It?

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Am, people find it hard. Is majority failure. They tend to go for the same wrong answer or pattern matching answers. But small groups get the right answer 80 per cent of the time. It's an opportunity to look at the alchemy of deliberation. The magic of group discussion is still there.

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Deliberation. Debate. Conversation. Though it can feel like that’s what we are doing online as we trade arguments back and forth, most of the places where we currently gather make it much easier to produce arguments in isolation rather than evaluate them together in groups. The latest research suggests we will need much more of the latter if we hope to create a new, modern, functioning marketplace of ideas. In this episode, psychologist Tom Stafford takes us through his research into how to do just that.

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