Here is a transcript from a recent 60 second science report from
the Scientific American: Groups with Good Social Skills
Outperform the Merely Smart Groups of two to five members who
interacted with each other best outperformed groups whose
individual members had higher intelligence scores. Karen Hopkin
reports: If Alice is smart, and Bob’s even smarter, working
together they would A) be twice as smart, B) be half as smart or
C) form a task force and get nothing done. According to new
research, the answer is none of the above. It would actually
depend on how well they get along. What makes a group good at
what it does? A team of scientists put their collective heads
together and divided volunteers into groups of two to five. And
they asked these groups to perform a variety of tasks, from
brainstorming answers to questions like “What can you do with a
brick?” to team typing blocks of complicated text. What the
researchers found is that the intelligence of individual group
members was not a good predictor of ho