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A common response to these experiences is to form larger committees, but that just invites all the pathologies of large committees (see section X).  \subsubsection{Email Cascades Among Committee Members}  A committee member sends an email raising an issue about discussion at the last meeting, ccing all. Another committee member responds hastily, and then another. Then a fourth one sees the last email but doesn't look at the previous two and responds to the sender without CCing. The recipient recipient\cite{brown_social_2002}  of this email replies to whole group but most members have not seen the previous email. And so it goes, all in the space of two hours. Then later that day one member who was away from her email writes a missive about the process. And so on and so on. \subsubsection{Mysterious Data Analyses Breed Distrust}  Have you ever seen a chart or table put up on the screen by a committee chair or administrator and said either "that's a bad chart" or "I wonder where that came from" or "hmmmm, that doesn't seem quite right"? But neither the chart itself nor the person showing it can explain where the data came from or who made it.  \subsubsection{Administrative Reports/Analyses that Would Not Stand Up to Normal Scholarly Standards}