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Figure 4.3: Final Results (15 adults, 15 children)
Overall, children performed 50% better intuitive guesses than adults.
Is this a scientifically proven hypothesis? Of course not, but like intuition itself, it points us in a direction that is worth considering.
Conducted properly, this protocol could work with a much larger population to test the power of intuition within specific groups (entrepreneurs, business leaders, children, women, men, etc.).
Kids do have more creativity than adults
After leaving FedEx, I went to work for a creative problem solving company, Synectics® in Cambridge, MA. Synectics has studied creativity since the 1950s and had determined when people generally lose their
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