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Woolley AW, Chabris CF, Pentland A, Hashmi N, Malone TW. Evidence for a collective intelligence factor in the performance of human groups. Science. 2010;330(6004):686-688.

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Intelligence - collective

It is well known that in health care as in many other human activities and endeavors, some teams or groups perform better together than others. This study showed that in small groups successful accomplishment of a variety of tasks was much more closely related to a new measure of collective intelligence than to the average or maximal intelligence of the individuals that constituted the group, Collective intelligence was found to be related to 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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