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Re:Is Agile Stifling Introverts? by slantyyz on Saturday March 31, 2012 @11:08PM (#3782515)
>> b) Brainstorming -- Recent studies suggesting that it's ineffective are intruiging,

The passing reference in the OP didn't really put the original "Brainstorming Doesn't Really Work" article (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/01/30/120130fa_fact_...) in context. Brainstorming, as in the "let's put all the ideas out there without critiquing/debating them", was disproved in the late 50s.

In the article, a study found that adding the debating or critiquing back to the process improved creativity. You would also think that introverts would feel even more stifled in such a situation, wouldn't you?

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Re:Is Agile Stifling Introverts? by zeroonetwothree on Sunday April 01, 2012 @04:48AM (#3783138)
No, I think debating/critiquing is exactly the structured type of discussion that introverts thrive at. It's the unstructured "say whatever comes to your mind" part of brainstorming that we don't do well at.
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