Abilene paradox attitudes towards them if they do not go along. This action-anxiety arises from what Harvey termed "negative fantasies"—unpleasant visualizations of what the group might say or do if individuals are honest about their opinions—when there is "real risk" of displeasure and negative consequences for not going along. The individual may experience "separation anxiety", fearing exclusion from the group. The theory is often used to help explain extremely poor group decisions, especially notions of the superiority of "rule by committee". For example, Harvey himself cited the Watergate scandal as a potential instance of the Abilene paradox in action. The Watergate scandal
Hausdorff paradox that if two open subsets of the plane (or the real line) are equi-decomposable then they have equal area. Hausdorff paradox The Hausdorff paradox is a paradox in mathematics named after Felix Hausdorff. It involves the sphere "S" (a 2-dimensional sphere in "R"). It states that if a certain countable subset is removed from "S", then the remainder can be divided into three disjoint subsets "A", "B" and "C" such that "A", "B", "C" and "B" ∪ "C" are all congruent. In particular, it follows that on "S" there is no finitely additive measure defined on all subsets such that