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Correcting 'mistakes' - children help their peers.

• Supermancho 5y ago
  > We assumed that, because everyone knows everyone else in small scale communities, direct interventions would be less common, as people could rely on more indirect ways such as reputation to ensure compliance with rules. But we actually found the opposite to be true. Sigh. This is the kind of bad assumption I would expect from a 1st year college student. In rural communities, the risk of someone making mistakes is more impactful (and therefor more serious). Rural life is a lot simpler in some ways, as well. In an urban center, there are countless ways to solve problems and discoveries to be made with the materials at hand. Urban mistakes or inefficiencies are well tolerated, as they may simply be a previously unknown solution/technique with their own cost/benefit profile.