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It seems weird this theory’s backbone was just some random person who contacted someone and said something like “hey I have math that says you’re right” and it just takes off from there. Until some other rando checks it out of curiosity…



Do you mean this quote:

"A Chilean business-consultant named Marcial Losada, 'who had begun to dabble in what had become his passion: mathematical modeling of group behavior,' sent her an out-of-the-blue email."

The article seems to ignore it, but Losada had a PhD in social and organizational psychology from the U of Michigan [1].

[1] http://losada.socialpsychology.org/


I think you have just described the open source code review model.

edit: and science in general?


-PR approved “Rando said it looks good “-




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