Hi all, Eugene Kim, the consultant who facilitated Wikimedia's amazing five-year strategic planning process, has just posted an interesting blog post (with his new consulting agency, Groupaya).
http://groupaya.net/blog/2011/10/do-women-make-groups-smarter/ An excerpt: > Tom Malone is the director of MIT’s Center for Collective Intelligence. A few > months ago, he published research with Carnegie Mellon’s Anita Woolley > suggesting that groups with more women exhibited greater collective > intelligence. It’s not that women have higher IQs than men. (Individual IQ > had little correlation with collective intelligence.) It’s that women tend to > exhibit more social sensitivity than men, and social sensitivity is a much > stronger contributing factor to group intelligence. Kim goes on to discuss the implications for Wikipedia, a project that is highly collaborative and mostly male. He concludes with the idea that, in the interest of pursuing more effective collaboration, Wikipedia would benefit from more participation by women. A good read, I recommend it. -Pete _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
