Week 1 | Two Cultures
Daniel Simons, https://youtu.be/vJG698U2Mvo Much like our experience with the Invisible Gorilla experiment, it is easy to miss so much outside our narrow field of vision. Last quarter I took four math courses as a fourth year math major and never left south campus whenever I was on campus. Not one thought or concern about north campus crossed my mind. Taking the north-south campus divide as a metaphor for the Two Cultures, I conjecture that the situation is similar outside UCLA. People work hard in their respective fields to produce results and advance their careers by meeting the standards set by the senior professionals in the fields who earlier went through the same process; they have little mental resources left to bridge the interdisciplinary gap unless their field is interdisciplinary to start with. As I have learned painfully in my course of study, it takes tremendous effort to learn and master things in one field. https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/in-group-bias Add to that...