What to do when mentors are leading the team in the wrong direction?

[philso]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

In the words of JVN, "Voting is not an engineering decision making process."

Also, howabout the people who are consistently in the minority? They will in fact feel more left out.

Originally Posted by GreyingJay

People who are consistently in the minority in this type of decision making tend to have different base criteria than the others. They have a different level of acceptable risk for example, or they are using decision factors not in everyone else's mindset (like "coolness factor").

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.

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.