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 I appreciate your comments. As for Servo, the fact that Servo is used by a professional community does not immunize it from groupthink. In fact, groupthink could adversely affect Servo, in that it might lead the medical community to become more centralized and lead to less critical thinking by individual doctors. For instance, when a doctor comes across a difficult medical dilemma, instead of trying to devise an innovative solution to the problem, he might consult Servo and assume that the Servo's solution to his problem is the best solution available. At that point, he stops thinking critically and goes along with the group. In this scenario, critical thinking and a chance to invent a better solution are lost. However, in my opinion, the value of the information and the service that Servo provides far outweighs any negative impact. Groupthink within Servo is still important, but as I said in my paper, "the social utility it creates surely outweighs any negative cognitive impact."

-- ScottMcKinney - 13 Jan 2010

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Scott, much like Brian, I had never really thought about groupthink as it relates to the social networking context. Quite a novel topic. I definitely can identify with the results of Sandra Erdelez's study. TI definitely think that my overall information retention has increased since my exposure to various social networks. Regarding the lock-in effect that groupthink tends to cause in software development... what are developers doing to try and combat this effect? I'm no programmer (and don't know that much about it), so I have absolutely no clue, but I feel like there have to be some ways to program from the outset to avoid this lock-in effect.

-- EdwardBontkowski - 15 Jan 2010

 
 
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