Can Simple Transmission Chains Foster Collective Intelligence in Binary-Choice Tasks?

ABSTRACT: In many social systems, groups of individuals can find remarkably efficient solutions to complex cognitive problems, sometimes even outperforming a single expert. The success of the group, however, crucially depends on how the judgments of the group members are aggregated to produce the collective answer. A large variety of such aggregation methods have been described in the literature, such as averaging the independent judgments, relying on the majority or setting up a group discussion. In the present work, we introduce a novel approach for aggregating judgments-the transmission chain-which has not yet been consistently evaluated in the context of collective intelligence. In a transmission chain, all group members have access to a unique collective solution and can improve it sequentially

SUBMITTER: Moussaid M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5120860 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature