Humans solve problems by adding complexity, even
when it’s against our best interests
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/04/16/bias-problem-solving-nature/
“The researchers say this experiment, and a number of others they published in a recent paper in the journal Nature, reveal something fundamental about the human psyche: We tend to solve problems by adding things together rather than taking things away, even when doing so goes against our best interests.
It’s a tendency that may have especially wide-reaching implications for the realm of public policy.
“The tendency to overlook subtraction may be implicated in a variety of costly modern trends, including overburdened minds and schedules, increasing red tape in institutions and humanity’s encroachment on the safe operating conditions for life on Earth,” the authors write”.
Adding is favoured over subtracting in problem
solving
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00592-0
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/04/16/bias-problem-solving-nature/
“The researchers say this experiment, and a number of others they published in a recent paper in the journal Nature, reveal something fundamental about the human psyche: We tend to solve problems by adding things together rather than taking things away, even when doing so goes against our best interests.
It’s a tendency that may have especially wide-reaching implications for the realm of public policy.
“The tendency to overlook subtraction may be implicated in a variety of costly modern trends, including overburdened minds and schedules, increasing red tape in institutions and humanity’s encroachment on the safe operating conditions for life on Earth,” the authors write”.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00592-0