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Arianna Avidor's avatar

There was nothing. Then the man explains:

In the 1930s - we did not believe that the Nazis would massacre us

In the 1940s - we did not believe that the Arabs would break out in a war

In the 70s - we didn't believe that the moving forces went to war, so this time we applied the "tenth man" law

"If nine people think the same, the role of the tenth is to conduct an investigation and a complete process against the opposite option." It is the tenth person's responsibility not to agree no matter how impossible.

Applying the Tenth Man Law forces Israel to consider an alternative point of view, something we as humans generally tend to resist. If I managed to convince anything in his words, you have 9 others to test them.

People are creators looking for patterns. We look for connections everywhere. It has positive sides. It has fixing sides.

Experimenting with this law enables the application of canceling the "herd phenomenon" or the "law of the social average". The understanding that everyone says that the king has clothes, it still does not mean that the king is not naked...

Go prove it…

Ask yourself if it's real? Does Amn really work like this? Can it also be applied in business organizations? Below is an interesting quote:

If you're wondering if Israel actually does this, yes, it does indeed. The label differs, but the concept is the same: task someone with going against the grain. As this PDF from the Brookings Institution explains (page 15 of 40 in your PDF reader; h/t):

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Jacob Logan's avatar

While I DO agree that there should be a 10th man in place to fight groupthink, there also exists the ethical and moral and logical use of putting her/she/they into place. It's a theory that is great in concept, and when it works well, it works great, as with the astronauts. The problem begins when the 10th Man is either not powerful enough in thought, but also not too preoccupied with the power of having such a valid role (one that must exist) that can lead us down destructive paths. Trails that branch off into problems; and where no problem to be solved, but had shifted into something much more sinister. But as Uncle Ben taught Spidey, "with great power comes responsibility". The responsibility of looking at all aspects of a problem, and TRUSTING that your 10th Man is coming to the table with the same expertise and ethical thought as the first nine participants, and as such could come up with all of the bad scenarios, but to also abide by the concept that he/she/they are working collectively towards a solution, rather than further, unrelated, problems.

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