Well, according to the popular article:
"But the team's scores had little to do with the intelligence scores
of individual members, or with the score of the "smartest" person on
the team, the researchers reported."
So, actually then, the "c factor" would have little to do with intelligence.
--Mike
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Mike Palij wrote:
> Science magazine has published an article online that has already
> been reviewed in the popular media. The article describe the
> "collective intelligence" or "c factor" demonstrated by a group of
> people engaged in group problem solving. One popular media
> account can be read here:
> http://news.discovery.com/human/group-intelligence-wisdom-crowd.html
>
> The abstract and access to the Science article is available here:
> http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/sci;science.1193147v2?maxtoshow=&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=anita+william+woolley&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&resourcetype=HWCIT
> or here:
> http://tinyurl.com/2cj6gbf
>
> Quoting from the abstract:
>
> |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.
>
> I wonder what this says about the intelligence of all male groups? ;-)
>
> -Mike Palij
> New York University
> m...@nyu.edu
>
>
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