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Here we are focusing on collective — not civic — intelligence.

Everybody should contribute at least one type of collectivity to this page. Everybody should add three or more attributes to any of the listed collectivities that you believe might help make that collectivity intelligent. I've listed a few examples of each. Don't worry if you're not certain about what you write here — these are just hypotheses! BTW, you can also add attributes that think might not be relevant (see below)

Small groups (according to Woolley et al)

Challenges:

• solving visual puzzles
• brainstorming
• making collective moral decisions
• negotiating over limited resources

Attributes:

• Supports a manageable formation of participants
• Less resistance to change
• Less space required
• More space for innovation
• Community building
• Addresses shared concerns and common objectives

Dynamics:

• social sensitivity
• number of females in group
• disregard to individual levels of general intelligence
• equality/mediation of voices

Attributes not associated with intelligence of small groups

• group cohesion

Married Couple (or equivalent)

Challenges:

• Commitment
• Responsibility
• Restraint
• Tolerance
• Establishing priorities

Attributes:

• ability to discuss things calmly and come to conclusions
• ability to empathize with each other's emotions so as to understand each other's needs
• mutual property

Professional Sports Teams

Challenges:

• Technological Advantages
• Brand Management
• Reputation
• Injuries
• Politics
• Recruitment
• Inadequate coaching

Attributes:

• knowledge of each other's skills
• ability to read each other's signals and react quickly
• good all around skills
• Adequate Funding
• Regulations for Honesty
• Public Support
• Successful coaching

Seminar Group

Challenges:

• Collective Social Sensitivity
• Establishing a framework for effective communication
• Distinguishing between fact and opinion

Attributes:

• ability to build on each other's comments —and slow hunches
• opportunities to test and identify dynamics of collective intelligence
• opportunities to stimulate the spread of memes.

Occupy Wall Street groups

Challenges:

• Identifying a Collective Purpose
• Agreeing on Pragmatic Statements, Chants, and Slogans
• Planning for police intervention
• Informally electing a civilian to facilitate movement/action through speech
• Informing uninformed participants of the purpose of the gathering

Attributes:

• Influential Public Demonstrations
• Participatory Democracy
• Civil Activism
• Inertia of Ideas

Contributors to a Wiki Page

Challenges:

• Learning to navigate throughout the wiki
• Editing/Trimming
• Developing pages without excessive repetition

Attributes:

• ability to build on each other's comments (similar to Seminar Group)
• place to compile online resources
• rewards of creating a "Liquid Network of Ideas." -(Steven Johnson)

Distributed Research and Action Network

Challenges:

• Coordination
• Communication
• Managing of Distribution
• Creating a Commons
• Shared Language(s) and Lingo(s)
• Describing transcendant goals
• Keeping things fresh
• Translating abstract thought from mind to mind and putting it into practice
• Acting as communication facilitators for each other

• Recognizing emergent phenomena and giving it a place

Attributes:

• Flexible
• Free-flowing information
• Synergy
• High Creative output
• Redundancy

School District in Economically Disadvantaged Location

Challenges:

• Distribution of limited resources
• Lack of Family/Community support
• Language Barrier
• Dropout Rates
• No Child Left Behind

Attributes:

• Connecting the Schools with the Communities
• Impressionability of the Youth
• Educators who are willing to work for change
• Alternative Education System

Sales Crew (General Employee Teams in Business)

Challenges:

• Assigning roles
• Developing problem solving strategies
• "Establishing ownership of common objectives" -(http://www.teamtechnology.co.uk/corporate-team-building.html).
• Implementing marketing/advertising tactics
• Time management

Attributes:

• Increased Sales?

Dynamics:

• Workspace
• Tech Tools
• Roles and Responsibilities
• Social Skills
• Flexibility
• Group Synergy

Ultimately we could use these to help us actually measure collective intelligence.