If a baseball and a bat cost $1.10 together, and the bat costs $1.00 more than the ball, how much does the ball cost?
Solution
5 cents. System 1 thinking often leads to mistakes in this type of problem.
A father and son are in a horrible car crash that kills the dad. The son is rushed to the hospital; just as he’s about to go under the knife, the surgeon says, “I can’t operate—that boy is my son!” How is that possible?
Solution
The surgeon is the boy’s mother. This puzzle illustrates the persistence of gender discrimination.
In a lake, there is a patch of lily pads. Every day, the patch doubles in size. If it takes 48 days for the patch to cover the entire lake, how long would it take for the patch to cover half of the lake?
Solution
47 days. To answer correctly, you need to ignore your system 1 and use your system 2.
Alan is smart, hard-working, impulsive, stubborn and jealous.
Ben is jealous, stubborn, impulsive, hard-working and smart.
Who should you hire?
Solution
They are the same, but a priming effect often make people prefer the first candidate.
06-01-2019
The BVA Nudge Consulting grows!
We are proud to announce that Koen Smets joined our team in the UK.
A quick presentation :
Koen is a special adviser to the BVA Nudge Consulting, focusing on organizational transformation and change. For more than 25 years, he has been helping clients address organizational challenges and pursue opportunities for operating more effectively. Working with both companies in commerce and industry and organizations in the public sector around the world, Koen uses insights from behavioural economics and behavioural science to diagnose issues, formulate solutions and implement change.
He shares a passion for the ethical application of behavioural insights with the other members of the Nudge Unit. Koen also blogs extensively on how these insights help explain our day-to-day behaviour at work and outside work, and how they can be used to make our lives better.
He holds a Masters degree in Engineering from Brussels Free University.