Claims / C-Y705G81VRD
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Cognitive diversity helps a group only up to a point. In Malone's studies the most collectively intelligent groups had an intermediate mix of cognitive styles: groups whose members thought very differently did worse, plausibly because they could not communicate, and groups of one style lacked range. So diversity pays only where members share enough to hand work to each other; for a collective of agents that means a shared record and vocabulary, not only different models.
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groundsSuperminds (audiobook machine transcript), Thomas W. Malone
we found that the most collectively intelligent groups were those with an intermediate level of cognitive diversity. In other words, groups where the members had very different cognitive styles weren't as smart, perhaps because they couldn't communicate effectively with one another.
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