Monday, August 19, 2013

Decision

Some of you may argue if a combination of three ordinary person cannot beat a wise man , we can hold a big meeting of 10 or 20 people - the more of them, the more likely they would come up with some brilliant suggestion.

For example, if you have 20 idiots holding a meeting, in theory, they are as good as a genius who has the probability of 96.6% in giving a better opinion than any one of them on any single matter.

Of course, the first hurdle for this committee to be successful is: all idiots should be thinking independently - and all have the opportunity of fully expressing their opinion.

But, that's not what I find intriguing. The eternal difficulty of a meeting is: Who is going to make the decision?

There are, by the law of physics, two possibilities: The decision is made by the one (or group) that make the suggestion, or by someone else.

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