I have noticed this over the course of about 15 years. It usually happens when a new topic comes up. The most perplexing part of all of this is people in the room will start responding and as if what they said was coherent with the rest of the speech thus far, and no one but me has ever spoke up with this happens. What is this mode of communication?
Example: A client requests whether a list of internal users can have their passwords changed. Minutes later we're having a meeting about it. My teammate asks "They want to know if they can the passwords for this list of users" the guy he's asking responds with "That would be dangerous, we don't recommend changing those passwords". Then the very next sentence from my coworker is "I think we can go into the database to get a list of users" and starts listing off some other stuff about what we call the users in the list, and everyone jumps in and starts talking about this list of users and how to get it, and I have no idea why they're talking about this. I ask my coworker after the meeting why we are going to the database.
I will leave the story there for people to guess what he said as far as why we are going to the database. Why do you think we were going to look up a list of users in the database?
Most of the group feels energized to take action - action bias.
Then new information is presented that is contrary - but they cannot assemble it into their knowledge base. So it is discarded. They do not understand it. Only the info provider understood it.
And then the herd just follows the motion of the herd.
So instead ask a question or for find out who leaders are and get them onboard.
For example - the group: we should drink gasoline
New info provider - it sounds like you want to drink gasoline - can each of you explain how we should dispose of your body should you follow that advice - maybe draw a picture of how you think you death would go?
Understand to be understood - their minds are full, they are not listening
Also false consensus bias, who agrees, disagrees, has no opinion - maybe ask
Cantaloupe 1 points 1 week ago
Because he did have breakfast.
In this case it's a communication issue.
Most of the group feels energized to take action - action bias.
Then new information is presented that is contrary - but they cannot assemble it into their knowledge base. So it is discarded. They do not understand it. Only the info provider understood it.
And then the herd just follows the motion of the herd.
So instead ask a question or for find out who leaders are and get them onboard.
For example - the group: we should drink gasoline
New info provider - it sounds like you want to drink gasoline - can each of you explain how we should dispose of your body should you follow that advice - maybe draw a picture of how you think you death would go?
Understand to be understood - their minds are full, they are not listening
Also false consensus bias, who agrees, disagrees, has no opinion - maybe ask