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Bikeshedding
A team may spend disproportionate discussion time on familiar, low-impact details while more consequential and complex questions receive less scrutiny.
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Checked source previewAcademic paper
Quality of Group Decisions by Board Members: A Hidden-Profile Experiment
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- What it supports
- Eight of the 42 groups that reached a choice selected the objectively best candidate. Initial majority preference strongly influenced choices; time, confidence and satisfaction did not predict quality. The procedures increased perceived weighing of pros and cons but not objective performance.
- Where it may not transfer
- This was one 30-minute hiring simulation with Dutch non-profit board members. The procedures were unevenly allocated across group composition, and the study measured hidden-profile performance rather than issue importance or Bikeshedding.
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