Half-Assed Theory

[unorigional]

Say you have two people working on a task together.

If they both do a half-assed job, does that mean 100% of the job gets done?

If one works after the other, are they doing half of what's left, making it 75% done?

Or maybe they're working simultaneously, and half-assing each other, only doing 25%.

Comments

[jarick]

The phrase in question is "social loafing," a measurably real phenomenon that does demonstrate that the more people are on a given job, the less work they do because they are certain their partner(s) are going to do the rest.

Look up Kitty Genovese and the bystander effect for more. :V