Now – those who got it right. On the count of three, I’d like you to sit down if you’d seen the question before. 1, 2, 3!” Everyone who was standing … - David Franklin

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Now – those who got it right. On the count of three, I’d like you to sit down if you’d seen the question before. 1, 2, 3!” Everyone who was standing sits down. This gets a huge laugh. The students who got the answer wrong suddenly feel much better about their mistake: in a Harvard class, not a single person got it right unless they had seen it before.

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David Franklin is an art historian with expertise in Italian Renaissance art, a curator, and a former art museum director.

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Dan asks the class whether any of them has ever checked the weather on their phone to see if it’s likely to rain while they’re outside. Everyone has. “What do you do if you see there’s a 30% chance of rain?” “Take an umbrella”, several students all say at once.

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It sounds like a lot of you are not too surprised if this 30% chance materialises,” Dan replies. “You take precautions against it. The rain, if it comes, doesn’t shock you, and you have your umbrella. So why was everyone so shocked about Trump?

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