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The Value Perspective with James Montier

The Value Perspective

CHAPTER

The Fallacy of Group Decisions

There is a belief that groups make better decisions than individuals writ large. People stifle their own opinions and instead they begin to share common information because of conformity we like to agree with people most people like to agrees with people. The wisdom of crowds really only holds in with some very very strict provisos like you know only when people have some idea about the correct answerOnly when their views are entirely independent these are sorts of things that make the wisdom of crowds work but they're not a good description of financial markets. I thought doomed the average investment process to be a pretty ropy process thanks James.

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