Teamwork In Lord Of The Flies By Dr. Bahrami

The teamwork titan or the solo soldier: the ultimate debate over the lifestyle someone can adopt into his or her life. This timeless battle has manifesting effects all across the globe from small scale cooking, all the way to international politics. The thing is, is it better to work with others in a group and embrace the idea of “two heads is better than one”, or believe that that people are commonly restricted from achieving much higher goals by their peers? In some cases, these ideas are fused together into a hybrid; however, in terms of extremes, collaboration is vital and can produce the ideal results when the group members all have a variety of skills they can contribute to the team.
In the realistic fiction novel Lord of the Flies,

Everyone has heard that line before sometime in his or her life, but how genuine is that idiom? For example, if someone is highly capable of completing the designated task, will giving him or her another partner always make it better and/or faster? Some may say that simply going alone is the only principal to follow. A study by Dr. Bahrami on collaborative, interacting minds suggests:
The general consensus from extensive earlier work on collective decision-making is that groups rarely outperform their best members (11, 15). Even in one of the rare cases in which consistent collaborative benefit was established, group performance failed to reach the bound predicted by the proposed ideal combination of individual decisions.
Bahrami’s data does not support the conjecture about teams performing better as the high-performing members were not able to achieve much higher, if any, improvements on scores when paired with another person. In some cases, the extra opinion even impaired the judgement of the other and weakened the quality of the performance on the tests. However, this mostly relates to when the additional teammate does not offer anything else that would complement and improve the quality of the performance of the group as a whole. Skill deficits can be alleviated by others who possess the desired skills. This concept applies so much in today’s society also with the globalized economy and networking. Companies rely on other companies; people rely on

Wolves may be strong, wild, and menacing creatures of the wild, but they still know the importance of keeping themselves associated within a wolf pack: “Perhaps wolves live in groups to reduce losses to scavenging ravens. Larger packs, despite the cost of sharing with more pack mates, might do better than smaller packs by minimizing losses to scavenging ravens” (Ravens Give Wolves a Reason to Live in Packs). When a pack of wolves exhausts all their energy on large, prey animal, scavengers, such as ravens, swoop in and try to eat some of the food lying in the open by the wolves as the wolves are tired. By being in a pack, a raven would be more intimidated and be reluctant about trying to steal any food. In contrast, a vulture that sees only one wolf would easily be able to snatch a bite or two without needing to fear immediate danger. The wolves are willing to sacrifice some personal freedoms, enjoyment, and energy for the pack’s sake as a whole for a sense of security. In the end, a strength in numbers is established even with animals so high up on the food