Thinking back to my #MBA class on #Leadership, discussing how #cultural #context shapes #decisions.
The #professor presented a scenario:
‘A 50-year old man and his son are driving down the Mass. Pike when they meet with an accident.
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The #professor presented a scenario:
‘A 50-year old man and his son are driving down the Mass. Pike when they meet with an accident.
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They are rushed to the hospital. The chief surgeon, who was the only one on duty at the time, looked at the bodies and exclaimed – “I can’t operate; he is my son.” A hospital convention prevented doctors to operate on immediate relatives.’
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“What do you think is going on here?” The professor asked this #culturally #diverse class.
There were various answers in the room.
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There were various answers in the room.
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One student submitted that the surgeon could be the biological father while the man driving was the stepfather.
Another submitted that the surgeon and the father could be gay couples, and the boy would be their adopted son.
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Another submitted that the surgeon and the father could be gay couples, and the boy would be their adopted son.
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Someone suggested that the surgeon was in fact the father of the 50-year old man as it was commonplace in his country for chief surgeons to be more than 75 years old.
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The professor smiled while making an observation that most ‘such’ answers came from students from western Europe and US, while students from South America, Eastern Europe, Asia, and Africa took more time to make much sense of the ‘situation.’
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The answer – the Chief Surgeon was the Mother.
It was powerful reminder of decision #biases in our #reasoning abilities.
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It was powerful reminder of decision #biases in our #reasoning abilities.
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This was a group of students that represented 11 nationalities, had average experience of 9 years, average age of 30 years, 30% women, and were professionals from the field of management to medicine to aviation to sports to education.
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Yet, no one predicted that the chief surgeon could be a woman.
Worse, it wasn’t specific to this group. Studies after studies of such experiments have confirmed such biases.
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Worse, it wasn’t specific to this group. Studies after studies of such experiments have confirmed such biases.
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I am reminded of this lesson after listening to a #masterclass yesterday by @ErinMeyerINSEAD for @netcapglobal where she was discussing her new book @NoRulesRules with @utkarsh_amitabh
Highly recommend!
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Highly recommend!
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