MarkusQ comments on Hold Off On Proposing Solutions - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MarkusQ 11 August 2011 05:51:36AM *  3 points [-]

Are you sure of that citation? I just looked for it in a copy of Dawes's "Rational Choice in an Uncertain World" and again with the full text search in Google books

http://books.google.com/books/about/Rational_choice_in_an_uncertain_world.html?id=rcU1BsfrM2kC

and did not find any mention of Maier's work. Also, though Maier does frequently use the "Changing Work Procedures" problem, I haven't turned up any publication by him that matches this description. (Note that this failure is quite possibly mine; I haven't done an exhaustive search).

-- MarkusQ

Comment author: byrnema 26 August 2011 11:30:33AM 1 point [-]

I'm thinking perhaps it is this book by Norman R.F. Maier:

Problem Solving Discussions and Conferences, published by McGraw-Hill Education (December 1963).

Does anyone know of more recent journal article on the topic, 'wait before proposing solutions'?