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Brainstorming - Controversy | | Brainstorming - Controversy: Encyclopedia II - Brainstorming - Controversy | | The story that an organization has banned the word 'brainstorm', in favor of 'thought shower', due to its connection with epilepsy, appears regularly in British newspapers. Invariably, it is given as an example of 'political correctness gone mad'. One example can be found in the Observer, 26 June 2005 regarding the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment in Belfast. Another example is the Telegraph, 26 April 2003 regarding trainee teachers.
A survey in 2005 by the UK charity National Society for Epilepsy found that 93 per cent of people with the condition ...
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| | | Brainstorming: Encyclopedia II - Brainstorming - Controversy
Brainstorming - Controversy
The story that an organization has banned the word 'brainstorm', in favor of 'thought shower', due to its connection with epilepsy, appears regularly in British newspapers. Invariably, it is given as an example of 'political correctness gone mad'. One example can be found in the Observer, 26 June 2005 regarding the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment in Belfast. Another example is the Telegraph, 26 April 2003 regarding trainee teachers.
A survey in 2005 by the UK charity National Society for Epilepsy found that 93 per cent of people with the condition do not find the word brainstorming offensive.
Another UK epilepsy charity, Epilepsy Action, discuss this in their Epilepsy Facts, Figures and Terminology web page. An informal survey by Epilepsy Action in their journal Epilepsy Today (Issue 73, October 2005) confirmed the NSE findings.
Other related archives2005, Advertising, Alex Osborn, British, New product development, Problem Solving, Process management, Project Management, TRIZ, Team building, The Fifth Discipline, UK, criticism, design, dialogue, divergent production, epilepsy, groupthink, lateral thinking, metaplan, mind, mind map, new product development, political correctness, round robin, think, think tank
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