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April 27, 2006
Groups perform better than individuals in solving complex problems
(Posted by francois to: interesting links )According to a recent study by the American Psychological Association, "collective efforts of groups may be useful in boosting problem-solving skills." (via business pundit).
Apparently "groups of three, four, or five perform better on complex problem solving than the best of an equivalent number of individuals". The study also found that "groups of two performed at the same level as the best of two individuals."
One of the apparent limitations of the study is that it analyzed only "logical conceptual systems" - or the solution to "letters-to-numbers coding problem" - prompting Rob over at BusinessPundit to question whether "individual cryptographers would outperform these groups."
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Posted by francois at April 27, 2006 1:45 AM | Bookmark This
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