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Originally Posted by Kodak
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Group-think can lead people to make decisions without thinking, and sometimes the majority is wrong.
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Agreed. They voted in Hitler... And that's only one of probably many cases where the majority was wrong.
I've come to appreciate the "shared consensus" approach to decision making. It's easier in small groups than larger ones, and can be impossible to do in larger groups . But the benefit is that all involved really feel ownership of the resulting decision. You end up with less people feeling like they want to take their ball and go home.
Eventually we might evolve some kind of internet forum interchange format, where ideas get bounced around until we have enough consensus of opinion to make a unified decision.