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Death by homogeny The second stop on our tour of commonly defended bad ideas is the seemingly friendly notion of communal thinking. Just because everyone in the room is smart doesn't mean that collectively they will arrive at smart ideas. The power of peer pressure is that it works on our... more

Reviewed by digits Sep 07 2005, 08:08pm ( 137 reviews ) • scottberkun.com

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Rated by CSMastermind on May 06 2009, 10:00am

A great article. You don't want to catch yourself being a smart person defending a bad idea. I just wish that it's list of ways to defend against bad ideas were better and more comprehensive.
Rated by jeflin on Nov 15 2008, 2:26am

Add intelligence to arrogance and you have a sure recipe for defending wrong logic.
Rated by tommy-sean on Nov 11 2008, 1:26am

A great stumble.
Rated by kloot1 on Sep 28 2008, 12:36pm

"The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments." - Friedrich Nietzsche
Rated by miraclecor on Jul 16 2008, 8:55am

From the page: "The problem with smart people is that they like to be right and sometimes will defend ideas to the death rather than admit they�re wrong. "
Rated by diaa0111 on Jun 29 2008, 2:26pm

This reminds me so much of the lsat
Rated by InternetBizDude on Jun 01 2008, 4:43pm

wonderful article on logic and debate
Rated by Weezer1223 on May 05 2008, 3:29am

This is some interesting stuff. I've seen this in the lives of some really smart people I know.

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