Study looks at collective intelligence of teams
Wed, 01/12/2011 - 9:15am
A recent study published in Science (www.sciencemag.org) looked at what made some teams perform better than others. Researchers investigated why some teams are better at collective tasks than others and arrived at a way to define the “c factor” – a general collective intelligence factor.
Researchers included Anita Williams Woolley of Carnegie-Mellon, Christopher F. Chabris of Union College, and Alexander Pentland, Nada Hashmi and Thomas W. Malone, from MIT.
They defined define a group’s collective intelligence (c) as the general ability of the group to perform a wide variety of tasks.
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