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-1 Post author: Douglas_Reay 07 March 2012 07:31PM

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Comment author: Douglas_Reay 08 March 2012 01:50:57AM 0 points [-]

Still, I want to see more posts like this! Generating good ideas is really hard, and this really does look like an honest effort to do so.

Thank you.

Maybe there should be a tag that means "the ideas in this post resulted from a meetup discussion, and are not endorsed as being necessarily good ideas, but rather have been posted to keep track of the quality of ideas being produced by the meetup's current discussion method, so feel free to skip it".

Many brainstorming techniques have a stage during which criticism is withheld, to avoid people self-censoring out of fear ideas that were good (or which might spark good ideas in others).

But maybe LessWrong is not the right place for a meetup to keep such a record of their discussions? Where might be a better place?

Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 08 March 2012 02:09:00PM *  0 points [-]

Many brainstorming techniques have a stage during which criticism is withheld, to avoid people self-censoring out of fear ideas that were good (or which might spark good ideas in others).

This probably doesn't work.

Comment author: Douglas_Reay 08 March 2012 03:26:02PM 0 points [-]

Interesting study. Does that apply only to techniques that have no later 'criticism' stage, or does it apply to all techniques that have at least one 'no ciriticism' stage?

Having a poke at Google Scholar gives a mixed response:

this meta analysis says that, in general, most brainstorming techniques work poorly.

this paper suggests it can work, however, if done electronically in a certain way.