{"id":6359,"date":"2011-08-26T12:35:19","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T04:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=6359"},"modified":"2014-11-15T16:02:15","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T08:02:15","slug":"friday-math-movie-trial-error-and-the-god-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-trial-error-and-the-god-complex-6359","title":{"rendered":"Friday math movie: Trial, error and the God complex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writer Tim Harford explains in this video how our best discoveries are often the result of our biggest mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>His book <em class=\"textem\">Adapt: Why Success Always Starts With Failure<\/em> \"argues that the world has become far too unpredictable and complex for today's challenges to be tackled with ready-made solutions and expert opinions.\"<\/p>\n<p>Over to Harford and his suggestion to \"make better mistakes\" through randomness. It certainly has relevance to math teaching!<\/p>\n<div class=\"videoBG\">\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"303\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K5wCfYujRdE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"alt\"><a href=\"#respond\" id=\"comms\">Be the first to comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-trial-error-and-the-god-complex-6359\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Trial, error and the God complex\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2011\/08\/trial-error-god-complex.jpg\" title=\"Trial, error and the God complex\" width=\"128\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgRt\" \/><\/a>How can we cope with the 10 billion-odd bits of data that assault us every day? Tim Harford shows how we learn by trial and error.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[125],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}