Originally Posted by
ShyTorque
...Only engineers had been put through before and NONE of them had ever finished within the time limit because they spent a great deal of time discussing the task and coming up with alternative theories.
Speaking as an engineer, and at risk of generalizing, we are probably not the best time managers!
But I wonder if those engineers may have done better if left to do the task individually rather than debating alternative approaches as a group!?
We did an exercise along these lines years back in a mixed group. One instruction was that nobody could put their feet over a marked line. Simple enough instruction. I thought the team needed a "guard" to make sure this rule wasn't breached, but I couldn't even suggest that before someone had already stepped over the line and we were "out".
As for theoretical knowledge vs applied ability, I understand how sailing boats operate in wind and water but when in sailing competitions, our team always came last or near last, so we gave up!!
Now: back to the theory of rotor dynamics... haaa haaa, haaa.