Comment on Harvard Business Review: What Makes a Team Smarter? More Women.parentComments−bellaire15yThat study is exclusively with smaller groups: 3 people. The social dynamics of a 3-person group are very different than a 10-person group as in this study. This probably has much to do with the different results.−dhruval15yActually the studies used groups from 2-5.Here is a more scientific summary of the research... http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~cfc/Woolley2010a.pdfThe interviewer just picked 10 as an arbitrary number. The researcher just went along with it.−zzleeper15yAgreed. But then, 3-person groups are more common than 10-person groups (where it's hard to get anything done b/c everyone wants to speak and so on)
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That study is exclusively with smaller groups: 3 people. The social dynamics of a 3-person group are very different than a 10-person group as in this study. This probably has much to do with the different results.
Actually the studies used groups from 2-5.
Here is a more scientific summary of the research... http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~cfc/Woolley2010a.pdf
The interviewer just picked 10 as an arbitrary number. The researcher just went along with it.
Agreed. But then, 3-person groups are more common than 10-person groups (where it's hard to get anything done b/c everyone wants to speak and so on)