On 2013-02-13 7:43 AM, ianG wrote:
This underlying force to appease every participant with a vanity tweak is so powerful, it is one of the reasons why committees consistently succeed in generating worse results than the original founders. But they do keep everyone happier -- so there are wider forces here .. beyond security even.
Many heads can be wiser than one, but in practice this is quite difficult to achieve. The normal outcome, the almost universal outcome, is that too many cooks spoil the broth.
Ordinarily a committee is simply dumber, often substantially dumber, than the individuals that compose it.
Observing the wisdom of crowds and the madness of crowds, wherever you have consensus, you have madness. Whenever there is pressure to agree, consensus is 100% wrong.
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