"Our characterization of collective folly is that sound judgment is not feasible when there is forced or false agreement in groups. We also show how group polarization sets the stage for risky and even dangerous decisions to be made. How we navigate between false agreement and polarization is the kind of mastery that collective wisdom represents."

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Source : Source: bobmorris.biz

Alan Briskin

#Decision Quotes #Kind Quotes #Judgment Quotes

“Worry is the product of feverish imagination working under the stimulus of desires... It is a necessary resultant of attachment to the past or to the anticipated future, and it always persists in some form or other until the mind is completely detached from everything.”
“I'm more into the Spawn toys. They're really cool. They're coming out with a Techno Spawn series and another series, The Dark Ages, which are really cool.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I like young girls. Their stories are shorter.”
“The sea drinks the air and the sun the sea.”
“We give empathy to others for our own benefit.”
“Chrysostom, I remember, mentions a twofold book of God: the book of the creatures, and the book of the scriptures. God, having taught us first of all by his works, did it afterwards, by his Words. We will now for a while read the former of these books; 'twill help us in reading the latter. They will admirably assist one another.”

Source : Cotton Mather (1815). “The Christian Philosopher: A Collection of the Best Discoveries in Nature, with Religious Improvements”, p.11
“Take some time to learn first aid and CPR. It saves lives, and it works.”
“A woman's fame is the tomb of her happiness.”

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