# Evidence for a Collective Intelligence Factor in the Performance of Human Groups

- **Authors**: Anita W. Woolley, Christopher F. Chabris, Alex Pentland, Nada Hashmi, Thomas W. Malone
- **Year**: 2010
- **Summary**: This study, published in *Science*, found that a group's performance on a wide range of tasks is driven by a single statistical factor, which they termed "collective intelligence" (c). Surprisingly, *c* was not strongly correlated with the average or maximum individual intelligence of group members but was correlated with the average social sensitivity of group members, the equality in distribution of conversational turn-taking, and the proportion of females in the group.
- **Link**: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1193147
