Post by t-bob on Apr 27, 2019 10:05:59 GMT -5
GROUPTHINK
noun
1. the lack of individual creativity, or of a sense of personal responsibility, that is sometimes characteristic of group interaction.
Quotes
Lately, as scientists try, and fail, to reproduce results, all of science is taking a hard look at funding biases, statistical shenanigans and groupthink. -- Tamar Haspel, "Here's what the government's dietary guidelines should really say," Washington Post, March 26, 2019
You don’t need to do many focus groups to see groupthink in action.
-- Joseph Stromberg, "Focus groups shape what we buy. But how much do they really say about us?" Vox, January 22, 2019
Origin
Groupthink is a disparaging term modeled on doublethink “the mental ability to believe simultaneously two contradictory things,” appearing in 1984, by George Orwell (1903–50). Groupthink entered English in the early 1950s.
noun
1. the lack of individual creativity, or of a sense of personal responsibility, that is sometimes characteristic of group interaction.
Quotes
Lately, as scientists try, and fail, to reproduce results, all of science is taking a hard look at funding biases, statistical shenanigans and groupthink. -- Tamar Haspel, "Here's what the government's dietary guidelines should really say," Washington Post, March 26, 2019
You don’t need to do many focus groups to see groupthink in action.
-- Joseph Stromberg, "Focus groups shape what we buy. But how much do they really say about us?" Vox, January 22, 2019
Origin
Groupthink is a disparaging term modeled on doublethink “the mental ability to believe simultaneously two contradictory things,” appearing in 1984, by George Orwell (1903–50). Groupthink entered English in the early 1950s.
