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The lecturer argues that group work has a lot of disadvantages such as free rider, less-rewarding and low performances. These came out from one experiment which is taken by 6months to indicate the performance of group work. This directly contradicts the reading passage's claim that team project could offer several advantages by their collective intelligence.
To begin with, the lecturer says that more people take more time to make consensus. As many people participating with one group project, various opinions make a lot of troubles to coordinate people's idea into one specific provision. This casts doubt on the reading passage's claim that wide range of people can make a speedy decision making and creative solution.
Next, the lecturer provides one assumption that one or two influential people would handle whole project without gathering whole participants' ideas. As he said, influential person would decide or drop some object without considering others creative opinions. This counters the reading passage’s claim that participant who suggests good idea will be easy to get reward.
Finally, the lecturer claims that group work is not risk free project, whole participant must take entire risk. Not like individual project, group project is commonly big so far its risk is more than individual thing. If project fails, every participant cannot be free from blame. This contradicts the reading passage's claim that group work can scatter their responsibilities into tiny one. |