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| Date: | Tue, 26 Apr 2011 09:19:22 -0400 |
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Here's an article that shows that the collective intelligence of the group is positively correlated with the number of females in the group, largely because females are more socially sensitive (according to a social sensitivity measure). Apparently, a group with more equally distributed conversational turn-taking has a higher collective intelligence than a group in which a few members dominate the interactions.
Sarah Meerts
On Apr 26, 2011, at 8:34 AM, Sweet, Michael S wrote:
> Friends,
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> There is a TBL’er who was recently saying a few words to his department about TBL and was told that he was “was depressing female and minority participation by engaging in group learning.”
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> I don’t believe this charge has merit, and gave him a few reasons why, but he asks “Can you recommend a handful of representative articles (if there are such) on the dynamics of women and people of color in group learning environments (TBL or other)?”
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> Anyone got some at their fingertips?
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> -M
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