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Re:Boards are dangerous to founder/CEOs by mattkevan on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @01:16PM (#29321126)
“The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.”

- Terry Pratchett

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Re:Boards are dangerous to founder/CEOs by lostcolony on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @01:26PM (#29321240)
Also Pratchett, and mathematically probably more accurate (decreasing rather than increasing with the more people added) - "the IQ of a mob is the IQ of its most stupid member divided by the number of mobsters"
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Re:Boards are dangerous to founder/CEOs by toxik on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @01:18PM (#29321159)
Jung's statement is much stronger, more akin to 1/sqrt(N).
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