Officially known as "diffusion of responsibility". It's the reason why, if you are a witness to an accident and you are attending to an injured individual, you are supposed to point to a single individual bystander and tell them call for an ambulance rather than say "someone call 911".
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Officially known as "diffusion of responsibility". It's the reason why, if you are a witness to an accident and you are attending to an injured individual, you are supposed to point to a single individual bystander and tell them call for an ambulance rather than say "someone call 911".