Twenty Questions: Efficiency in Problem Solving as a Function of Size of Group

Taylor, Donald W.; Faust, William L.

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“…This relationship is consistent with that reported elsewhere for other kinds of tasks (Hill, 1982;Laughlin & Jaccard, 1.975;Taylor & Faust, 1952).…”

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confidence: 93%

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Cooperative Learning: Effects Of Task, Reward, And Group Size On Individual Achievement

Hagman¹,

Hayes²

1986

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“…This relationship is consistent with that reported elsewhere for other kinds of tasks (Hill, 1982;Laughlin & Jaccard, 1.975;Taylor & Faust, 1952).…”

Section: Resultssupporting

confidence: 93%

“…Generally speaking, overall group performance does improve as group size increases (Anderson, 1961;Hill, 1962;Klausmeier, Wiersma, & Harris, 1963;Taylor & Faust, 1952).…”

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Cooperative Learning: Effects Of Task, Reward, And Group Size On Individual Achievement

Hagman¹,

Hayes²

1986

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“…We chose the game of Twenty Questions because it is familiar, can be played by either individuals or groups, and has a number of advantages for studying task difficulty (Taylor and Faust 1952). We chose the game of Twenty Questions because it is familiar, can be played by either individuals or groups, and has a number of advantages for studying task difficulty (Taylor and Faust 1952).…”

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Cognitive cooperation

Wilson

Timmel

Miller

2004

Hum Nat

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Cooperation can evolve in the context of cognitive activities such as perception, attention, memory, and decision making, in addition to physical activities such as hunting, gathering, warfare, and childcare. The social insects are well known to cooperate on both physical and cognitive tasks, but the idea of cognitive cooperation in humans has not received widespread attention or systematic study. The traditional psychological literature often gives the impression that groups are dysfunctional cognitive units, while evolutionary psychologists have so far studied cognition primarily at the individual level. We present two experiments that demonstrate the superiority of thinking in groups, but only for tasks that are sufficiently challenging to exceed the capacity of individuals. One of the experiments is in a brain-storming format, where advantages of real groups over nominal groups have been notoriously difficult to demonstrate. Cognitive cooperation might often operate beneath conscious awareness and take place without the need for overt training, as evolutionary psychologists have stressed for individual-level cognitive adaptations. In general, cognitive cooperation should be a central subject in human evolutionary psychology, as it already is in the study of the social insects.

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“…Additional support for error checking in groups was reported when a Twenty Questions Problem was used (Taylor & Faust, 1952r). Participants were allowed 20 questions in which to name an object identified as either animal, vegetable, or mineral.…”

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Group versus individual performance: Are N + 1 heads better than one?

Hill

1982

Psychological Bulletin

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Experimental comparisons of groups and individuals were analyzed on four dimensions: task, process, individual differences, and methodology. A standardized terminology based on Lorge, Fox, Davitz, and Brenner was developed to preserve operational definitions in the comparisons of (a) group versus individual, (b) group versus the most competent individual in an aggregate, (c) group versus pooled responses of an aggregate, and (d) group versus math models of performance. Research supported Steiner's theory of process loss but also suggested evidence for process gain. To avoid confounding of group conditions and subject variables, this review-focused on the results of random assignment of subjects to conditions.

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Twenty Questions: Efficiency in Problem Solving as a Function of Size of Group

Cited by 43 publications

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Cooperative Learning: Effects Of Task, Reward, And Group Size On Individual Achievement

Cooperative Learning: Effects Of Task, Reward, And Group Size On Individual Achievement

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Group versus individual performance: Are N + 1 heads better than one?

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