"Group thinking is no thinking." - Aaron Russo

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[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

"Groups" of human beings get quite dumb at a threshold. I believe "group"-thinking doesn't even exist.

Human groups get quite foolish at a threshold i believe to be five to seven and then their "thinking ability" exponentially declines with size. At seven it seems to be not more than primate-class behaviour and even dolphins can manage this better in bigger sized groups.

It's the same with "meetings" or "presentations" in companies. Basically these are used to present either made-up or makebelieve facts to the audience they gotta devour and ideally implement in their everyday work. A real debate isn't usually what the the author is looking for.

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Half of everyone is stupider than average and most of the rest are really close to average.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

So you are the stochastics friend i missed my whole life because obviously you neither get mean nor average. I'm happy this is you because I feel like I know you.

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

However you cut it, with precision divisions or moot semantics, the premise remains mean-ingful.