I’ve previously read a study that suggested evaluation during brainstorming led to less ideas—I don’t remember where.
Personally, I feel less inclined to post when I know someone will tell me my idea is wrong.
Edit: A Harvard Business Review article about brainstorming and ‘evaluation anxiety’ led me to this article, which I have not been able to read yet.
A general comment about this thread rather than a reply to Khorton in particular: The original post didn’t suggest that this should be a brainstorming thread, and I didn’t interpret it like that. I interpreted it as a question looking for answers that the posters believe, rather than only hypothesis generation/brainstorming.
When I was studying maths it was made clear to us that some things were obvious, but not obviously obvious. Furthermore, many things I thought were obvious were in fact not obvious, and some were not even true at all!
I’ve previously read a study that suggested evaluation during brainstorming led to less ideas—I don’t remember where. Personally, I feel less inclined to post when I know someone will tell me my idea is wrong.
Edit: A Harvard Business Review article about brainstorming and ‘evaluation anxiety’ led me to this article, which I have not been able to read yet.
https://hbr.org/2015/03/why-group-brainstorming-is-a-waste-of-time
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-8616.00154
A general comment about this thread rather than a reply to Khorton in particular: The original post didn’t suggest that this should be a brainstorming thread, and I didn’t interpret it like that. I interpreted it as a question looking for answers that the posters believe, rather than only hypothesis generation/brainstorming.
When I was studying maths it was made clear to us that some things were obvious, but not obviously obvious. Furthermore, many things I thought were obvious were in fact not obvious, and some were not even true at all!