<p>Saw this on TED and thought it was interesting:</p>
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Tom Wujec presents some surprisingly deep research into the "marshmallow problem" -- a simple team-building exercise that involves dry spaghetti, one yard of tape and a marshmallow. Who can build the tallest tower with these ingredients? And why does a surprising group always beat the average?
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<p>Summary: kindergarten children perform better on a creativity activity than business and law graduates. The speaker talks about the deeper thought processes and strategies behind their performance.</p>
<p>It’s more about reasoning than it is about creativity. IQ represents your reasoning ability. Kindergartners have just as high of IQ as adults, however business students, especially high-GPA ones, are usually low in IQ.</p>
<p>I sent this to my boyfriend. He’s an arch/engineering student. He’ll be pleased to see that bar graph.
Interesting study. I have a newfound respect for the way my boyfriend and his colleagues think, now. It seems to be entirely different than how a prospective science major would…
I suppose that architecture is a mix of analytical thinking and creativity whereas science, math, etc. is just more analytical.<br>
Thanks for sharing!</p>
<p>4.0 (although I transferred and am no longer in the business school, at least temporarily). I know where you are going with this. You are going to say “see, high GPA,” and most likely ignore my high IQ, thus fitting me into your inaccurate stereotype. The problem with your theory is that you ignore the fact that these students are trained differently. Obviously Engineering students are smart. But, are they not taught about building structures, physics, and other things like this? So would they not have an unfair advantage?</p>
<p>I am interested to see how other degrees do on this.</p>
<p>Yes, my school just hands out As. I have never gone to class nor studied. I actually spend all my time smoking crack and building things with sticks and marshmallows :D</p>
<p>Wow Mods, can you please ban whistleblower1 instead of infracting me for saying 1 thing to the guy? He makes personal attacks on just about every post (post number 2 is a PERFECT example of that), yet I get infracted and he’s still allowed to post? That’s ridiculous.</p>
<p>Anyway, lol at generalizing that everyone in a major is dumb because of a test. There are plenty of engineers I know that have less than stellar GPAs (around 2.7-2.8) and are clearly not as intelligent as me. Fact is, there are idiots everywhere, so broad, sweeping statements like this are completely unfounded.</p>
<p>Generalizations are relevant when comparing the results across different majors. If you think generalizations mean that each individual in group X has trait Y, then you need to go back to business school. So, lol at you for misunderstanding (as expected) the entire point of this thread/my posts/many other things.</p>
<p>I guess I can’t link to a video… even if it’s TED. If anyone new to the topic is interested in watching the video, search for ted.com marshmallow</p>
