Why clients should try to disprove their adviser

  "A physician has to be wary of his first impression of a patient's condition." Jerome Groopman - How Doctors Think Imagine I propose a series of three numbers - 2, 4, 8 - that adhere to a rule I've made up. You must try to discover my rule by offering some three-number sequences of your own, and I'll tell you whether yours fit the rule. Using the information gained from that testing process, you try to define the rule. Most people start with an assumption, e.g. that the numbers have to double, and look to prove their assumption by offering series based on that; say 4,...