Collaborative groups often outperform single individuals in complex problem solving. A new paper examined how to create the right incentives to promote this kind of collective intelligence.

Rewarding experts who are accurate can improve collective intelligence. But rewarding reformers whose predictions have greater potential to reduce the collective error (even though their personal predictions may be far from the truth) is much more effective in promoting the emergence of collective intelligence!

If you want to create smart groups, you need to incentive contributions to the collective rather than mere individual success!

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