The folks at semoz.org had a great post about the value of collaboration. The pearl of wisdom that really got me chuckling was:

Group intelligence is multiplicative when idiots are involved - combining a half-wit with another half-wit does not result in a full-witted person, it results in a quarter-witted person (1/2 x 1/2 = 1/4). Combining a full-witted individual with a half-wit still only yields a half-wit. The more of these “wrong kinds of people” you have involved in the process, the worse things get.

I am all for collaboration, but there comes a point (and it comes surprisingly quickly) when there is no need for additional opinions, especially from the wrong people.

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