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Psychologists have a name for this: binary bias. It’s a basic human tendency to seek clarity and closure by simplifying a complex continuum into two categories.4
Adam Grant • Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
Creativity as applied schizophrenia.

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nytimes.comMore worrying is that the questionnaire poses binary questions, asking, for example, whether you value sentiment more than logic or vice versa. The question assumes that there is a simple answer to this question, absent of context. Yet in real life, preference is highly contextual: I value logic when purchasing car insurance; I may value sentiment
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Henrik Karlsson • Looking for Alice
we need to go from thinking add or subtract to thinking add and subtract. The add or subtract framing forces us to try and resolve an apparent contradiction. If A is true, then not-A must be false. If I like subtracting, then I must not like adding. Resolving contradiction is not a bad thing. Doing so has aided reasoning at least since Aristo
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