All of us are equal, but some are more equal than others, and this Orwellian doublethink appears to be costing us dearly.
An “equality bias” that leads people to give the same weight to the opinions of others, regardless of whether they are experts, “damages” groups, according to a study.
Scientists have found that men give too much influence to colleagues with bad judgment and too little to those who are competent, even when the discrepancy is plain to see.
Bahador Bahrami, a neuroscientist at University College London and one of the researchers in the study, said that not even money was enough to make people abandon their fixation on equality. “People are incredibly bad at taking differences in competence into account when making group