Common-knowledge effect: A bias in team decision making
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#2“A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky animals and you know it.” - Agent Kay, MIB
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#3It's common to see this effect manifest during the Mt Everest simulation[0], which is sort of a touchstone in business school organizational behavior classes.
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#4It's common to see this effect manifest during the Mt Everest simulation[0], which is sort of a touchstone in business school organizational behavior classes. [0] https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/8867-HTM-ENG
Paywalled.
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#5It seems like some teams were able to reach the correct outcome. I wonder what they did differently.
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#6Familiarity is a huge factor in decision-making.
Apple, a multi-billion dollar company, made the Apple Watch to track your health. Something was missing for half of the population: cycle tracking. No decision maker was familiar enough with women's health to understand the importance of aligning cycle information with other health information.
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#7It's common to see this effect manifest during the Mt Everest simulation[0], which is sort of a touchstone in business school organizational behavior classes. [0] https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/8867-HTM-ENG
Paywalled.
Maybe the lesson is. Let green boots go. You need to get to the top.
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#8This smells like "Industry best practices"
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#9I think this might be one reason why pair programming can be difficult at times. I’ve personally found success in pair programming, but it usually came after adopting an attitude of moving past the stuff we know and trying a more free, humble approach.
This isn’t the best way to put it, but for lack of better words just starting with the mentality of admitting that it’s ok not to know what to do next and that we’re here to solve it really helps fight the kind of bias the article talks about.
It’s when you get to the point that you’re comfortable just reasoning aloud that the beauty of pair programming comes to light. Silly mistakes happen constantly but they’re caught right away and you move on so quickly in your shared state of excitement that a lot of the inhibition just goes out the window.
Mileage varies though, as not everyone gets the same benefits that I described.
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#10>>Deliberating in person isn't superior to online. According to research by Simon Lam and John Schaubroeck, virtual teams are more likely to overcome the common-knowledge effect compared to face-to-face teams, perhaps due to easier access to notes and materials.
That was an interesting observation, although the study didn't mention that another confounder could have been non-verbal communication often being much more suggestive/stronger (both to reinforce or suppress influence) in-person.