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SCIENCE
Volume 330, Issue 6004, Pages 686-688Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1193147
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- National Science Foundation [IIS-0963451]
- Army Research Office [56692-MA]
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Cisco Systems, Inc. through MIT Center for Collective Intelligence
- Direct For Computer & Info Scie & Enginr
- Div Of Information & Intelligent Systems [0963285] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Direct For Computer & Info Scie & Enginr
- Div Of Information & Intelligent Systems [0963451] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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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.
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