The Importance of Ordering in the Mind

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In near darkness we're very sensitive to small amounts of light. When in bright sunshine it takes a huge amount of light to make us win. We are more sensitive to the difference between one and two than the difference between 81 and 82, even highly educated people who make decisions about large sums of money show this bias. Animals are quite good at approximate number system, but the exact number system is a cultural artifact of extreme importance because it allows us to measure beyond our bodies as measurement.

Conveying the right type of information for a group so that they can make accurate decisions can be challenging. Barbara Tversky, Professor Emerita of Psychology at Stanford University and Professor of Psychology at Teachers College at Columbia University, alongside our take-over hosts, Barton Friedland and Jarno Kartela, uncover how people think about the physical and digital spaces they inhabit and how those are used to think, to communicate, to create, and of course, to decide. If you are a business leader, wanting better tools for understanding context and meaning in your teams, this is the podcast for you.