Recall the Application about the effectiveness of committees in making decisions about monetary policy to answer the following question(s). Recall the Application. The experiment conducted by Blinder showed that the actual process of having committee meetings and discussions:

A. tended to polarize the group into two distinct factions.
B. improved the group's overall performance.
C. magnified the individual group members' differences.
D. related to the average performance of the individual group members.


Answer: B

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