136. The key point is the presence of critical evaluation...
From your link: " Group members try to minimize conflict and reach a consensus decision without critical evaluation of alternative ideas or viewpoints."
Firstly... I'm not sure that I buy that there is even consensus on all that many issues. More importantly though, I don't know which issues could be said to have reached a consensus without critical evaluation of alternative ideas... for fuck's sake, there are some of us who aren't even convinced that the Op to kill bin Laden was a good idea. If there're alternative ideas being argued on that point... it argues against the presence of Groupthink...
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