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Unread 26-01-2016, 13:40
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Re: What to do when mentors are leading the team in the wrong direction?

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The people in the minority may have a better understanding of the situation than the majority. The majority might be trivializing/overlooking a major disadvantage of the solution they are favoring. We currently have a situation like this.
OK, that's fair. But it's the same problem - those people have access to different data and experiences than the others, so their job should be to educate the others. Or, the others will soon discover for themselves (perhaps during prototyping) what the minority knew about that they didn't. It's still not about a popularity contest.

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It is part of human nature to let emotions affect the decisions we make, especially when we vote. I have also watched votes where team members voted for what their friends voted for rather than evaluating the evidence for themselves and making their own decision.
Sounds a lot like the Asch experiments.
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