Jeff Atwood at Coding Horror nicely summarizes a great episode of This American Life, Ruining It for the Rest of Us. Conventional wisdom says that group dynamics trump the individual, but sociology professor Will Felps’ work suggests one bad apple can be surprisingly damaging. In his experiments, groups with one bad apple were up to 30-40% less effective than the untainted bushels.
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