Average Quote by William Binney Download Open image “The problem with a group is, the more people you add, the lower the average IQ.” — William Binney ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Average Group More People Problem
The problem is that groups are only smart when the people in them are as independent as possible. This is the paradox of the… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
The effectiveness of a group of people is not determined by their IQ but by how well they communicate. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably smart - smarter even sometimes than the smartest people in them. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups. — Robyn Hitchcock Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently as possible. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Diverse groups of problem solvers outperformed the groups of the best individuals at solving complex problems. The reason: the diverse groups got stuck less… — Scott E. Page Copy Share Image
The largest factor in predicting group intelligence was the equality of conversational turn taking; groups where a few people dominated the conversation were less… — Alex Pentland Copy Share Image
Groups are only smart when there is a balance between the information that everyone in the group shares and the information that each of… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
The smartest groups, then, are made up of people with diverse perspectives who are able to stay independent of each other. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Hackman's paradox: Groups have natural advantages: they have more resources than individuals; greater diversity of resources; more flexibility in deploying the resources; many opportunities… — J. Richard Hackman Copy Share Image
No NSA director did as much damage to the agency as Gen. Michael V. Hayden. — William Binney Copy Share Image
Trailblazer was the NSA's attempt to catch up with the digital age. The problem is, Trailblazer didn't do anything. As far as I know,… — William Binney Copy Share Image
FBI wants to know everything about you, and you're not supposed to know anything about them. — William Binney Copy Share Image
When I left NSA, it was with an understanding that you can never underestimate the power of large numbers of stupid people. — William Binney Copy Share Image
You don't hear anybody talking about what FBI is doing with the NSA collected data. That's because they're doing it in secret. I mean,… — William Binney Copy Share Image
The spooks are all cowards. Sunlight is the solution to these things. — William Binney Copy Share Image
At least 80% of fibre-optic cables globally go via the U.S. This is no accident and allows the U.S. to view all communication coming… — William Binney Copy Share Image
Reagan used to say that 'we're a country with a government.' Well, now we're a government with a country, and we're making everybody else… — William Binney Copy Share Image
We're not getting a good return on investment on all that money we're pumping into the intelligence community. One of the first things I… — William Binney Copy Share Image
I genuinely did not expect more than half our nation to choose to walk away from our long-term allies into the arms of our… — Brian Reade Copy Share Image
There were times last year when people looked at the scoreboard and thought my batting average was the temperature. — Buck Martinez Copy Share Image
The average condition of the people improving or deteriorating, depends upon whether population is advancing faster than improvement, or improvement than population. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The average well-being of our societies is not dependent any longer on national income and economic growth. ... But the differences between us and… — Richard G. Wilkinson Copy Share Image
I really focus more to hit for average, just try to put the ball in play as much as I can. — Juan Soto Copy Share Image
You give me enough shots, I'll average 20. You give me a particular system where I stick close to the basket, I'll average 10 rebounds. — Chris Bosh Copy Share Image
The average ordinary citizen can do a lot of different things when it comes to the climate crisis. — Lawrence Bender Copy Share Image
The average American expends more time becoming informed about choosing a car than choosing a candidate. But, then, the consequences of the former choice… — George Will Copy Share Image
My phone rings, they call me up and say, 'Chael, your testosterone level is too high.' I say, 'Well, how high was it?' They… — Chael Sonnen Copy Share Image
In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than anything else… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
