{"id":100,"date":"2010-10-11T02:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T02:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/2010\/10\/11\/collective-intelligence-number-of-women-in-group-linked-to-effectiveness-in-solving-difficult-problems\/"},"modified":"2013-06-29T15:17:08","modified_gmt":"2013-06-29T19:17:08","slug":"collective-intelligence-number-of-women-in-group-linked-to-effectiveness-in-solving-difficult-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/2010\/10\/11\/collective-intelligence-number-of-women-in-group-linked-to-effectiveness-in-solving-difficult-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Collective Intelligence: Number of Women in Group Linked to Effectiveness&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>&#8220;We set out to test the hypothesis that groups, like individuals, have a consistent ability to perform across different kinds of tasks.\u00a0 We found that there is a group collective intelligence which predicts a group&#8217;s performance in many situations.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>In groups where one person dominated, the group was less intelligent than those where the conversational turns were more evenly distributed.&#8221; <span><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Teams containing more women demonstrated greater social sensitivity and in turn greater collective intelligence compared to teams containing fewer women.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span>&#8220;Imagine if you could give a one-hour test to a top management team or a product development team that would allow you to predict how flexibly that group of people would respond to a wide range of problems. That would be an interesting application. We also think it&#8217;s possible to improve the intelligence of a group by changing the members, teaching them better ways of interacting, or giving them better electronic collaboration tools.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Having a bunch of smart people in a group doesn&#8217;t necessarily make the group smart. The whole adds up to something other than the sum of its parts.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We set out to test the hypothesis that groups, like individuals, have a consistent ability to perform across different kinds of tasks.\u00a0 We found that there is a group collective intelligence which predicts a group&#8217;s performance in many situations. \u00a0 In groups where one person dominated, the group was less intelligent than those where the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-studio","category-women"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":868,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}