Summary of Leidy Klotz's Subtract

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 I had been trying to convert my interest in less into something I could study. From the start, I had studied ways that buildings and cities might use less energy, and produce fewer climate-changing emissions. I had homed in on the designers, finding that they use mental shortcuts.
#2 I was able to bring many of the other parents up to speed by explaining to them that subtraction is a way to change things. They were initially confused, but eventually understood.
#3 The three-to-one ratio was found when people were asked to change random musical notes, and when people were asked to improve a piece of writing. It was roughly the same three-to-one ratio when people were asked to transform a five-ingredient soup.
#4 The Lego experiment showed that people overwhelmingly add more than they subtract. We then created a situation that would inspire subtraction, asking participants to improve an itinerary for a day in Washington, D. C. Only one in four participants removed activities from the packed original.

Sujets

• Cognitive science

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 13 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669353744
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Leidy Klotz's Subtract
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I had been trying to convert my interest in less into something I could study. From the start, I had studied ways that buildings and cities might use less energy, and produce fewer climate-changing emissions. I had homed in on the designers, finding that they use mental shortcuts.

#2

I was able to bring many of the other parents up to speed by explaining to them that subtraction is a way to change things. They were initially confused, but eventually understood.

#3

The three-to-one ratio was found when people were asked to change random musical notes, and when people were asked to improve a piece of writing. It was roughly the same three-to-one ratio when people were asked to transform a five-ingredient soup.

#4

The Lego experiment showed that people overwhelmingly add more than they subtract. We then created a situation that would inspire subtraction, asking participants to improve an itinerary for a day in Washington, D. C. Only one in four participants removed activities from the packed original.

#5

The dark middle line on the left side of the grid represents the fewest possible changes. The two best responses are to add four shaded blocks to the left side, or to remove four shaded blocks from the right side.

#6

We found that people were consistently neglecting a basic way to make change: subtracting. This suggested that people were not as aware of how to make change as they were of how to add and how to shade.

#7

If we choose to add, for whatever reason, then our interesting phenomenon isn’t necessarily a problem. But if we are not even considering subtraction, then we are definitely missing out.

#8

Accessibility is the ability to easily bring stored ideas to bear on your surroundings. It promotes mental efficiency. If adding is more accessible than subtracting, we hypothesized that three approaches would reduce this difference: searching your mind for ways to change the situation, bringing subtraction specifically to mind, and devoting more mental bandwidth to the change effort.

#9

The second test of accessibility was to bring subtraction specifically to mind, overriding how our brains have stored the two kinds of change. participants were asked to modify a sandwich-like structure made from Legos so that it was strong enough and high enough to hold a masonry brick above the head of a storm trooper figurine.

#10

The best solution to the Lego column was to subtract one block, and yet participants were more likely to add than subtract. This was evidence that people add to their detriment. However, we wanted to know whether the rates of subtracting would be higher among those for whom subtracting was brought to mind than among those for whom it was not.

#11

We add more than we subtract, and this causes us to miss out on good options. We subconsciously subtract to protect our precious mental bandwidth, and we can consciously do the same.

#12

The first reason we neglect subtraction is because we don’t even think of it.