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Re:Joe Kraus: Hiring. No False Positives by ecuzzillo on Thursday April 19, 2007 @04:12PM (#14762)
I'd rather have a room full of really smart people with the same values and the same thinking than risk hiring even a quarter of a room of people who are just a little behind.
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Re:Joe Kraus: Hiring. No False Positives by far33d on Thursday April 19, 2007 @04:28PM (#14766)
A room full of people that are really smart in exactly the same way isn't much smarter than just a few of those same people. A room full of pretty smart people with diverse experience and knowledge is WAY smarter than any smaller group. Read Surowiecki's Wisdom of Crowds.
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