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by wizeman 1088 days ago
> needed more time to solve challenging tasks but made fewer errors [1]

As someone else said, I can solve problems very quickly if the solutions don't have to be correct...

But more seriously, it seems like different people might have different thresholds for when they consider a problem solved?

If you decide to go back and review the problem and solution (even just mentally) to make sure you didn't make mistakes, of course that would take longer and give you more correct answers than the person who doesn't do that?

[1] https://www.bihealth.org/en/notices/intelligent-brains-take-...

1 comments

Call me naive, but if my proposed solution is not correct, the problem isn't solved.
Depends exactly what correct means. Not all problems are binary, some problems have a range of potential solutions that have different risks.