When Researchers Measured "Group Intelligence" by Having Groups Complete a Series

question 29

Multiple Choice

When researchers measured "group intelligence" by having groups complete a series of tasks that sampled from many sectors of the McGrath circumplex,they discovered groups

• A)of mostly men outperformed groups of women or ones with many female members.
• B)performed best when members contributed at nearly equal rates when working on the tasks.
• C)that did well on performance type tasks did poorly on decision-making tasks.
• D)with many intelligent individual members performed no better than groups whose members were less intelligent.

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