#group intelligence

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Great inventions (made by some) collected by Patrick Collison

You’ll find here some examples of people quickly accomplishing ambitious things together: https://patrickcollison.com/fast

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Media and the Mind: Emotional Contagion

Social media has tremendous power to share ideas, information and emotions to almost anyone or any audience you choose to reach. In the past it was the high level of communication and trade that, in part, drove our evolution into more complex social and technological communities, although at a much smaller scale than we are faced with today (See Our Time With TED). It seems then that many of our…

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Building a Better Group

Be sure to check out this old but useful article on group intelligence, which features, among other things, ways in which groups can behave more intelligently.

Groups that use this information will enjoy a temporary advantage over rival groups that do not. But eventually, information becomes widely dispersed, and everyone uses it, thus diluting whatever advantage exists in using it first. That’s when other instruments have to be used to create an advantage for a particular group. Instruments like superior networking/collaboration platforms, for example, when it comes to groups working on business projects.

Something to mull over as you consider how to get the most out of your project team.

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The emotional intelligence of group members, in other words, serves the cognitive intelligence of the group overall. And this means that — wait for it — groups with more women tend to be smarter than groups with more men. (As Malone put it: “More females, more intelligence.”)

Thomas Malone

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So how do you engineer groups that can problem-solve effectively? First of all, seed them with, basically, caring people. Group intelligence is correlated, Malone and his colleagues found, with the average social sensitivity — the openness, and receptiveness, to others — of a group’s constituents. The emotional intelligence of group members, in other words, serves the cognitive intelligence of the group overall. And this means that — wait for it — groups with more women tend to be smarter than groups with more men. (As Malone put it: “More females, more intelligence.”) That’s largely mediated by the researchers’ social sensitivity findings: Women tend to be more socially sensitive than men — per Science! — which means that, overall, more women = more emotional intelligence = more group intelligence.

MIT management professor Tom Malone on collective intelligence and the “genetic” structure of groups » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism

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A striking study led by an MIT Sloan School of Management professor shows that teams of people display a collective intelligence that has surprisingly little to do with the intelligence of the team’s individual members. Group intelligence, the researchers discovered, is not strongly tied to either the average intelligence of the members or the team’s smartest member. And this collective intelligence was more than just an arbitrary score: When the group grappled with a complex task, the researchers found it was an excellent predictor of how well the team performed.

Group IQ - The Boston Globe