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===Decision influence===
The ability to influence in an equal decision making system, time must be divided by group participants. As more people enter into the decision making group, the relative time shared by other members is reduced by (n^2)/2 (See [[The problem of coordination|the problem of coordination]]). So the larger the group, the relative time to influence diminishes in an exponential rate.
If the group have strong decision makers (when some members of the group have more influence on the group), they may take more time resources and their ability to influence in this time is much bigger (due to legitimacy or acknowledgment, or subordination effects), and thus the new comers will have less time and influence, so most of them will be disencoreged to participate.