- Think of changing system or taking a fresh perspective rather than just thinking of how to fix a problem. Sometimes it's just looking at things from a different axis. - This is also a form of [[Elastic Thinking]] ---------- "There was an investigation in the 1990s into why male undergraduates did so much better than female ones at Oxford and Cambridge, even though the exams were anonymous and so the discrepancy couldn’t really be put down to direct bias. Perhaps surprisingly, the gender difference in history exams was even bigger than the one in math. The finding that stuck with me was that men tended to write essays that took a strong position and argued it fiercely, and that this was highly valued. A balanced position argued from all points of view was valued less. (The report had many more facets than this.) One solution is to train women to make more one-sided arguments. But is that really beneficial to society? We could instead actually think about the value of balanced arguments, regardless of the gender of the person making them." - Eugenia Cheung in [[x + y]]