Groups have an intelligence of their own, and it depends more on how members work together than on how smart they are. In Malone's studies one group factor predicted performance on new, harder tasks better than either the average or the highest individual intelligence in the group; groups did better when members were socially perceptive and took part evenly, and worse when one or two people dominated.

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  When one or two people dominated the conversation, the group was, on average, less intelligent than when participation was more evenly distributed.

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  a group's collective intelligence score was a much better predictor of how well the group did on these more complex tasks than either the average or the maximum individual intelligence of the group members

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  we found that groups have a form of general intelligence just as individuals do

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  All attempts to reproduce the *c-*factor under independent authorship either partially or completely failed, while all Woolley-affiliated attempts to reproduce the *c-*factor succeeded.

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