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Friday, October 1, 2010

New Study Validates Factors That Enhance the Intelligence of a Group

New Study Validates Factors That Enhance the Intelligence of a Group
Fri, 01 Oct 2010 11:38:00 -0500

Photo of a a team working on one of the tasks used in the study involving Legos.

According to new study co-authored by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University and Union College, group intelligence may not be quantified as the sum or average of the cognitive abilities of its members.

By studying small teams of randomly assembled individuals, researchers discovered that groups featuring the right kind of internal dynamics perform well on a wide range of assignments, regardless of the sum or average individual cognitive ...

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