Yes, getting only "the best of the best" doesn't scale. I fully agree. But it also doesn't work for smaller teams, because people are people. Now we're back t

Yes, getting only "the best of the best" doesn't scale. I fully agree. But it also doesn't work for smaller teams, because people are people. Now we're back to my previous argument: The probability to get a team of only excellent (or terrible) people is near zero in reality independent of team size. Everything put together finally invalidates the original: > > Same thing happened with "small schools perform better" so they got funded. But turns out it's possible for them to perform terribly for the same reason it is for them to perform well. > Joint probability all members are either all excellent or all terrible is higher when the number of people is smaller. Trying to approach this conclusion by statistics just doesn't work as we see. But the non stochastic arguments why small teams are always in advantage, which I presented in my other post, hold.