We fail to realize that people are smarter together
Issue 87: People grossly underestimate how much smarter people are when they work together in groups to solve problems
“The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.”
Writing in the late 1800s, French physician Gustave Le Bon cemented in …
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