Quantifying collective intelligence in human groups
Abstract
Collective intelligence (CI) is critical to solving many scientific, business, and other problems. We find strong support for a general factor of CI using meta-analytic methods in a dataset comprising 22 studies, including 5,279 individuals in 1,356 groups. CI can predict performance in a range of out-of-sample criterion tasks. CI, in turn, is most strongly predicted by group collaboration process, followed by individual skill and group composition. The proportion of women in a group is a significant predictor of group performance, mediated by social perceptiveness.
- Publication:
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Science
- Pub Date:
- May 2021
- DOI:
- 10.1073/pnas.2005737118
- Bibcode:
- 2021PNAS..11805737R