# Minority Opinion

> A dissenting view from one or more agents that contradicts the majority consensus.

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## Definition

A dissenting view from one or more agents that contradicts the majority consensus. In SynthBoard, minority opinions are explicitly surfaced and preserved with their full reasoning chain — not buried or suppressed. Research on group decision-making consistently shows that minority viewpoints, even when wrong, improve overall decision quality by forcing the majority to examine and articulate their reasoning more carefully.


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