Scientific Definition
What's true of the parts is assumed true of the whole.
Plain-English Definition
What's true of the parts is assumed true of the whole.
Feynman Explanation
Each ingredient is great. The dish is poison.
Core Principle
What's true of the parts is assumed true of the whole.
Mechanisms
What's true of the parts is assumed true of the whole.
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Inputs (Triggers)
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Outputs (Behaviors)
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Behavioral Signature
Each ingredient is great. The dish is poison.
Examples
- Every team is high-performing; the company still misses its number.
- Aggregate-level dysfunction missed because the parts are 'fine.'
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Famous Experiments
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Design Principles
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Measurement Approaches
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Evidence
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How this behavior is exploited — and how to redesign around it.
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What's true of the whole is assumed true of the parts.
Constraining the option set to bias the decision.
Insisting on a word's original meaning over its current one.
Treating two things as comparable when they're not.
Assuming the truth must lie between two extremes.
Deriving 'is' from 'ought.'
Changing success criteria whenever the prior criteria are met.
Deriving 'ought' from 'is.'