Most of the responses to your comment miss the point that everyone agrees that a thousand people in a mob think justice is guillotines and smashing store fronts

Most of the responses to your comment miss the point that everyone agrees that a thousand people in a mob think justice is guillotines and smashing store fronts and torching cars and throwing rocks at the authorities, but you take a random dozen of the same people and magically by the sole fact of the group size being smaller, we're led to believe they're a fount of wisdom and justice, which I find rather ridiculous. If a thousand parallel operating "magic 8 balls" provides observed pragmatically bad advice, surely a random subset of a mere twelve "magic 8 balls" will not provide usefully better advice. By analogy, if you need a team of programmers, one ineffective way to recruit would be to visit the "CS 101 intro to hello world" lecture hall of hundreds and randomly select a dozen. Obviously the team will be a smaller subset so somehow it has to be smarter?