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Aella
@Aella_Girl
Two teams of 30 are assembled - both extremely intelligent and well-read. One team is exclusively people who work in academia, and the other team has little/no academia exposure. Each team is put in charge of building a small country from scratch (laws, roads, etc.). You predict
  • Academics do better
    30.5%
  • Nonacademics do better
    69.5%
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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@karlbykarlsmith
I'm imagining a team that's roughly suited for the task of 'building a city' - so some from every discipline, and also assuming the distribution over specialty is mostly the same as it is for nonacademics too.
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Fake Mario
@ShakedDown
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@Aella_Girl
Having worked in both academia and industry, I can say that people in industry who like to criticize academia invariably have no idea how it works, and generally underperform it.
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Cole Kinson
@cole_kinson
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@Aella_Girl
Definitely academics in that case, assuming they are from relevant disciplines. A set of ppl rigorously trained in Econ, Poli sci, psychology, history, etc. would be pretty indispensable for designing stable and effective institutions. Untrained ppl just wouldn’t cut it.
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Markie♿
@_felicityryan
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@Aella_Girl
As an academic, I have noticed that a majority of us have issues thinking outside the boxes we were taught into. I'm rooting for team non-academics on this one.
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