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Infinite Summer
Four writers who have never before read Infinite Jest will do so for the duration of Infinite Summer.
Great Games : Productivity501
So as a reminder to myself of the importance of having fun, we’ve compiled this list of fun group games. If you have any suggestions, please add them in the comments.
BPS RESEARCH DIGEST: How to improve group decision making
A new meta-analysis of 72 studies, involving 4,795 groups and over 17,000 individuals has shown that groups tend to spend most of their time discussing the information shared by members, which is therefore redundant, rather than discussing information known only to one or a minority of members. This is important because those groups that do share unique information tend to make better decisions.
Op-Ed Columnist - The Daily Me - NYTimes.com
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One 12-nation study found Americans the least likely to discuss politics with people of different views, and this was particularly true of the well educated. High school dropouts had the most diverse group of discussion-mates, while college graduates managed to shelter themselves from uncomfortable perspectives.
The result is polarization and intolerance. Cass Sunstein, a Harvard law professor now working for President Obama, has conducted research showing that when liberals or conservatives discuss issues such as affirmative action or climate change with like-minded people, their views quickly become more homogeneous and more extreme than before the discussion.
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The decline of traditional news media will accelerate the rise of The Daily Me, and we’ll be irritated less by what we read and find our wisdom confirmed more often. The danger is that this self-selected “news” acts as a narcotic, lulling us into a self-confident stupor through which we will perceive in blacks and whites a world that typically unfolds in grays.
How to Save the World - Power Laws and Power Dynamics
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What interests me, more than the non-egalitarian nature of such groups
(especially hierarchies), are the power
dynamics of groups that are purportedly
equal. We have been
conditioned by the multiple hierarchies in most of the groups we
participate in (including families, workplaces, and recreational
teams), to wait for 'leaders' to present themselves (or be assigned) in
the groups we are part of. We tend to find self-organization
opportunities (or necessities) bewildering -- there's kind of a tacit
"who's in charge" question floated, a 'holding back' waiting for
someone to direct the group.
Stumbling and Mumbling: Rational group delusions
Benabou shows how groupthink can spread even if individuals are rational. Let’s say your boss and a few of his associates get a damn fool idea ... What do you do?
You could speak up. But the costs of this might be high; even if don’t get sacked, you might be ostracised in various subtle ways, and even if you don’t you risk feeling foolish during the time - which could be many months - in which your warnings seem not to be vindicated. And the benefits of speaking up are small. You’ll not change corporate strategy or win friends in high places.
How to Save the World - Consensus Decision-Making: A Critical Capacity for the 21st Century
SSRN-The N-Effect: More Competitors, Less Competition by Stephen Garcia, Avishalom Tor
The present analysis introduces the N-Effect - the discovery that increasing the number of competitors (N) can decrease competitive motivation. Studies 1a-b found evidence that average test scores (e.g., SAT scores) fall as the average number of test-takers at test-taking venues increases. Study 2 found that individuals trying to finish an easy quiz among the top 20 percent in terms of speed finished significantly faster if they believed they were competing in a pool of 10 versus 100 other people. Using a social comparison orientation (SCO) scale, Study 3 showed the N-Effect occurs strongly among those high in SCO and weakly among those low in SCO. Study 4 directly linked the N-Effect to social comparison, ruling out the "ratio-bias" and finding that social comparison becomes less important as N increases. Finally, Study 5 found the N-Effect is mediated by social comparison. Limitations, future directions, and implications are discussed.
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