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I always find it funny when people believe anecdotes over actual science.

On-topic: these are the kinds of results from psychology that most people here should hopefully know already.

I always find it funny when people consider my "anecdotes" to be self-evidently delusional and utterly useless.

Guess I should just tell dozens of people that the years of frequent brainstorming we've engaged in has been a complete waste of time. Science says so!

That is not what dochtman is saying.

And I always find it funny when people don't actually read the article, because it doesn't denounce brainstorming at all, just traditional 'group brainstorming and immediately taking the results for granted'.

Why do you attribute success specifically to "brainstorming" and not to some other element of the process? e.g. sharing ideas and having a conversation with your friends in a fun and low-risk atmosphere?

I think the constant brainstorming over the years has had some kind of training effect on our brains, so that we are much better at coming up with ideas than before.

Which of course proves nothing.