I think the really telling finding is that people who had been recently taught how to solve the problem did not reach for that knowledge when faced with the actual challenge.
In Experiment 1 and later studies,
we found no significant differences between participants who
had been exposed to the newsvendor problem by taking the core
operations class and those who had not.
I think the really telling finding is that people who had been recently taught how to solve the problem did not reach for that knowledge when faced with the actual challenge.