One Bad Apple

 I read a study once that tested whether surrounding a problem child - a bad apple - with well behaving peers actually helps. The conventional wisdom is that the good children lift the performance of the bad child. What they found was the opposite. The 'bad apple' acts as a black hole which brings down, and in some instances, sinks the performance of the other children.

So the take away from that experiment is really that you can lift performance of a group by subtraction rather than addition.

hmmmm

hmmmm


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