Collective Intelligence - how communities make decisions

http://edge.org/conversation/collective-intelligence

by robrenaud • 14 years ago

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robrenaud• 14 years ago

I found this part particularly interesting.

> If it's not just putting a bunch of smart people in a group that makes the group smart, what is it?

> Finally, and most surprisingly to us, we found that the collective intelligence of the group was significantly correlated with the percentage of women in the group. More women were correlated with a more intelligent group. Interestingly, this last result is not just a diversity result. It's not just saying that you need groups with some men and some women. It looks like that it's a more or less linear trend. That is, more women are better all the way up to all women. It is also important to realize that this gender effect is largely statistically mediated by the social perceptiveness effect. In other words, it was known before we did our work that women on average scored higher on this measure of social perceptiveness than men.

Collective Intelligence - how communities make decisions

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