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otterley04/02/20251 replyview on HN

One person’s “groupthink and hyper-conformity” is a statistician’s normal distribution.


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asveikau04/02/2025

The words I chose are specifically meant to highlight the downsides.

1. Groupthink has a negative connotation of the downsides baked in.

2. "Hyper" conformity (or hyper anything) is already saying that it is too much.

I think it's well known and appreciated that without diversity of thought and opinion, a group or organization makes possibly locally optimized, but poor decisions.

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