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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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@karlbykarlsmith

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We're drawing randomly from the academy, not say development academics?

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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.

12:16 AM · Oct 29, 2019

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So I would expect the results to be roughly the same: what the academics lack in practical knowledge they make up in theory, and the inverse goes for non academics... (assuming of course, the usual stereotypes for "academics" and "non-academics" which I doubt a little)

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