It’s also not just a matter of the convergent approach being uncreative, but of its positively leading to a certain kind of mistake. Insight can be mistaken, but so can analysis.196 Subjects who solve predominantly by insight tend to make errors of omission (‘time-outs’) rather than errors of commission (incorrect answers); those who solve analytically make the reverse pattern, giving incorrect answers, rather than failing to complete. When confronted with a deadline,
