collective intelligence

(noun)

A shared or group intelligence that emerges from the collaboration and competition of many individuals and appears in consensus-decision-making in bacteria [clarification needed], animals, and computer networks.

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Examples of collective intelligence in the following topics:

  • Summary and references

    • Competitive intelligence is the systematic collection and analysis of publicly available information about an industry and its competitors.
    • Competitive Intelligence Review; Volume 12, Issue 4: 25 – 38.
    • "Competitive intelligence revisited: A history, and assessment of its use in marketing".
    • Competitive Intelligence Review, 5, 4: 23-31.
    • Competitive Intelligence Review, 10, 2: 52-6.
  • Information collection methods

    • Human intelligence can yield the most timely and accurate information, but it is the most resource intensive form of information to collect.
    • The entrepreneur's network should be the source of his/her human intelligence.
    • Their revenue is earned through the sale of the information they collect.
    • There are a number of organizations that are concerned with the collection and use of competitive data.
    • Internet sites with a focus on competitive intelligence include:
  • Defining Intelligence

    • Based on the results of a series of studies collected in England, Spearman concluded that there was a common function across intellectual activities that he called g, or general intelligence.
    • The current American Psychological Association definition of intelligence involves a three-level hierarchy of intelligence factors, with g at its apex.
    • Cattell proposed two types of intelligence rather than a single general intelligence.
    • In 1983, Howard Gardner published a book on multiple intelligence that breaks intelligence down into at least eight different modalities: logical, linguistic, spatial, musical, kinesthetic, naturalist, interpersonal, and intrapersonal intelligences.
    • A few years later, Robert Sternberg proposed the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence, which proposes three fundamental types of cognitive ability: analytic intelligence, creative intelligence, and practical intelligence.
  • The Eight Intelligences

    • Everyone is thought to possess this intelligence at some level.
    • Traditionally, Linguistic intelligence and Logical/Mathematical intelligence have been highly valued in education and learning environments.
    • Logical/Mathematical intelligence refers to an individual's ability to do things with data: collect, and organize, analyze and interpret, conclude and predict.
    • It is an internalized version of Interpersonal Intelligence.
    • An individual should tap into their other intelligences to completely express their Intrapersonal Intelligence.
  • Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom

    • The lecture teaches to students' Verbal/Linguistic Intelligence.
    • It is important to note that many activities, although designed to target a particular intelligence, may also utilize other intelligences as well.
    • This activity also taps into Verbal/Linguistic Intelligence.
    • Students must collect and organize information for both the timeline and the map therefore using their Logical/Mathematical intelligence.
    • The short plays that students prepare involve Bodily-Kinesthetic intelligence, as well as Interpersonal and Verbal/Linguistic intelligences.
  • Do What to Make Friends?

    • Its title was "The Fixity of Aggregate Intelligence and the Collective Clown Problem."
    • It's the general level of intelligence that matters.
    • The aggregate intelligence of any collection of humans confined in a space is fixed, regardless of the size of the group.
    • The aggregate intelligence of any committee for a meeting cannot be higher than the aggregate intelligence that remained at the end of the last meeting of the committee.
    • The aggregate intelligence of a committee is greater than the sum aggregate intelligences of all the subcommittees it spawns.
  • Defining the Problem

    • Like other sciences, sociology relies on the systematic, careful collection of measurements or counts of relevant quantities to be considered valid.
    • By operationalizing a variable of the concept, all researchers can collect data in a systematic or replicable manner.
    • For example, intelligence cannot be directly quantified.
    • But we can operationalize intelligence in various ways.
    • Or we might use years of education as a way to operationalize intelligence, assuming that a person with more years of education is also more intelligent.
  • Group Differences in Intelligence

    • Psychologists agree that intelligence differs among populations but disagree as to why this phenomenon exists.
    • The variance of intelligence scores among individual human beings can be extrapolated to larger population differences in general intelligence and mental capacity.
    • It was not until Alfred Binet and the emergence of the IQ test that psychologists were able to collect data that could accurately and reliably compare human groups .
    • Once again, none of these factors determines intelligence alone.
    • Instead, all of them work simultaneously to help determine a group's intelligence.
  • Roving Wiretaps

    • In 2007 a United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance court ruling required that the NSA obtain a warrant when intercepting or eavesdropping on foreign-to-foreign intelligence if it passes through any U.S. networks.
    • Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell remarked to Congress that the new ruling could potentially decrease the amount of useful information they collected on groups like al-Qaeda by almost two thirds.
    • On the other hand, U.S. intelligence agencies and the administration wanted as few obstacles in their way of intercepting private information.
    • Both sides have shown the possibility of accepting a bill that would require a FISA court to approve NSA's procedures while intercepting foreign intelligence when it comes to Americans.
    • Bush said that he would veto any intelligence bill passed that did not include such immunity.
  • What is Multiple Intelligences Theory?

    • Originally, the theory accounted for seven separate intelligences.
    • Subsequently, with the publishing of Gardner's Intelligence Reframed in 1999, two more intelligences were added to the list.
    • Gardner's theory challenges traditional, narrower views of intelligence.
    • Originally, the theory accounted for seven separate intelligences.
    • Subsequently, with the publishing of Gardner's Intelligence Reframed in 1999, two more intelligences were added to the list.
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