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, > > 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.” > > 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)?” > > Anyone got some at their fingertips? > > -M