Denne forskning undersøger, om grupper af mennesker kan have en form for “kollektiv intelligens.” To studier med 699 deltagere viser, at en generel kollektiv intelligensfaktor (c-faktor) påvirker gruppers præstationer på forskellige opgaver. Denne faktor er mere relateret til social følsomhed og ligelig samtale end til individuel intelligens.
Titel på undersøgelse:
Evidence for a Collective Intelligence Factor in the Performance of Human Groups.
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Hele abstrakt på originalsprog:
Psychologists have repeatedly shown that a single statistical factor—often called “general intelligence”—emerges from the correlations among people’s performance on a wide variety of cognitive tasks. But no one has systematically examined whether a similar kind of “collective intelligence” exists for groups of people. In two studies with 699 people, working in groups of two to five, we find converging evidence of a general collective intelligence factor that explains a group’s performance on a wide variety of tasks. This “c factor” is not strongly correlated with the average or maximum individual intelligence of group members but is correlated with the average social sensitivity of group members, the equality in distribution of conversational turn-taking, and the proportion of females in the group.