C006¶


Research	R0007 — AI Made Everyone Faster
Run	2026-03-19
Claim	C006

Claim: Felps, Mitchell, and Byington demonstrated experimentally that a single negative team member reduces team performance by 30-40%.

BLUF: Confirmed. Felps, Mitchell, and Byington (2006) studied 40 groups with planted actors displaying toxic behaviors (jerk, slacker, pessimist) and found a single bad apple reduces team performance by 30-40%. This finding has been widely cited and reported.

Probability: Almost certain (95-99%) | Confidence: High

Summary¶

Entity	Description
Claim Definition	Claim text, scope, status
Assessment	Full analytical product with reasoning chain
ACH Matrix	Evidence x hypotheses diagnosticity analysis
Self-Audit	ROBIS-adapted 4-domain process audit

Hypotheses¶

ID	Hypothesis	Status
H1	Claim is accurate as stated	Supported
H2	Partially correct with caveats	Eliminated
H3	Claim is materially wrong	Eliminated

Searches¶

ID	Target	Results	Selected
S01	Felps Mitchell Byington bad apple team performance	10	3

Sources¶

Source	Description	Reliability	Relevance
SRC01	Felps et al. (2006) Research in Organizational Behavior	High	High