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Revision as of 17:36, 19 October 2011


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:

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.