Comment by thomascountz

Let's pretend Alice tells the truth 100% of the time, and Bob is still at 20%. It's more easy to intuit that Bob's contribution is only noise.

Slide Alice's accuracy down to 99% and, again, if you don't trust Alice, you're no better off trusting Bob.

Interestingly, this also happens as a feature of them being independent. If Bob told the truth 20% of the time that Alice told a lie, or if Bob simply copied Alice's response 20% of the time and otherwise told the truth, then the maths are different.