Measures for Collective Intelligence
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
Basketball Team
Challenges:
Attributes:
- knowledge of each other's skills
- ability to read each other's signals and react quickly
- good all around skills
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:
Attributes:
School District in Economically Disadvantaged Location
Challenges:
Attributes:
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.
