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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Dan B. who wrote (227442)4/2/2005 12:25:16 AM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (2) of 1572033
 
would you like others, be it groups or elite rulers, to run you life?

When you put it like that I would think not, but actually that is the wrong way to put it. Group decision making, when informed, actually leads to better results usually than we could pick for ourselves. It's not a matter of having the group run your life, the group decisions should not be that detailed, but it is a way of finding novel decisions that you have not thought of while culling out the most risky choices.

Note that I emphasises informed. This was echoed in one of those links (very short article) which studied herd animals and their group decisions on predators. When few of the animals has good information, for example cannot see the predators, then the decision is no better than that of a lone animal, but when the group can pass on information about the preditors the survival rate of all in the herd is increased.

That is a simple decision, some of the other articles expanded the ideas to the more complex decisions that people make.

TP
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