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aksik [14]
3 years ago
7

Debra is an advisor to the president. before a weekly staff meeting, the president asks her to play ‘devil's advocate', and argu

e against the majority opinion. the president is most likely trying to prevent ________ from occurring
Social Studies
1 answer:
astraxan [27]3 years ago
5 0
<span>The President is trying to alleviate groupthink. Having Debra take an opinion against the majority allows the rest of the staff to re-think their own positions and see the merits (and demerits) of both sides of the argument. This stops everyone from blindly falling into a mode whereby they will agree with anything posited, simply because someone else put the idea forward.</span>
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