Now, this is the sort of thing Ratmansky might be expected to think.
I did something creative with students who have never been expected to think outside the box before.
Those approached in July, by contrast, received a deadline into the next year, and were expected to think of their deadline as unlike-the-present.
What could a jury be expected to think upon hearing a lady who had slain her husband assert that when the coward struck her she saw mauve, or that everything went beige?
According to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, developed in the 1930's, the mental categories by which people perceive the world are determined by their language, so that people who speak different languages can be expected to think differently.
Of course it's possible to troll at a much less violent level, simply by stalking through internet communities where people might be expected to think in a particular way, and saying things that will wind them up.
Enterprise is at the heart of the initiative says Karen Brooks, SETsquared projects director: "Even if graduates get one of the few corporate jobs still around, they will be expected to think and act more innovatively," she says.
Then, in the wake of the Chancellor George Osborne's decision to scrap maintenance grants from September 2016, some students who had been planning to delay their entry to university and take a gap year are expected to think again – thus avoiding an estimated £13,000 extra of debt on graduating.
This was met with a gentle but firm suggestion that I couldn't be expected to think clearly in this emotional state, and besides, didn't I realise that there were plenty of women out there who couldn't conceive and would give anything to be in my shoes?
