Eight People, Half the Try

Podcast: Clown Cast · Joey Musselman

Opublikowano: 2026-10-23

More people should make better decisions—Condorcet proved it mathematically in 1785. But Ringelmann's rope experiment showed the opposite: eight people pull at half strength. The episode explores how decision fatigue, social loafing, and information pooling create this paradox, and how system design—not individual effort—is the actual fix. 00:01:46 - The Condorcet-Ringelmann Paradox 00:06:51 - Social Loafing and Information Pooling 00:11:57 - Decision Fatigue in Groups 00:15:15 - The Real Takeaway: It's System Design 00:17:00 - Escoffier's Kitchen Brigade Solution --- Sources & further reading: • Ivan Dale Steiner — Group Processes and Productivity (Academic Press, 1972) • Garold Stasser & William Titus — "Pooling of Unshared Information in Group Decision Making: Biased...