Diversity tends to generate more and better ideas in social settings, ranging in scale from small-deliberative groups to tech-clusters and cities. Implicit in this research is that there are knowledge-generating benefits from diversity that comes from mixing different individuals, ideas, and perspectives. Here, we utilize agent-based modeling to examine the emergent outcomes resulting from the manipulation of how diversity is distributed and how knowledge is generated within communicative social structures. In the context of problem solving, we focus on cognitive diversity and its two forms: ability and knowledge. For diversity of ability, we find that local diversity (intermixing of different agents) performs best at all time scales. However, for diversity of knowledge, we find that local homogeneity performs best in the long-run, because it maintains global diversity, and thus the knowledge-generating ability of the group, for a longer period. Using agent-based models of a problem-solving task in a network, the authors show that clustering people of similar knowledge maintains solution diversity and increases long run system collective performance. Clustering those with similar abilities, however, lowers solution diversity and performance.
Les profonds changements qui, ces dernières années, ont marqué le paysage informationnel ont mis la question de l’évaluation au cœur des processus de traitement de l’information : la multiplication pléthorique de ressources numériques aisément accessibles mais instables et insuffisamment...
Une hirondelle suffit-elle toujours à faire le printemps ?C’est peut-être la question principale qu’on se pose lorsqu’on parle de signaux faibles. De la difficulté à les détecter à l’importance de leur rôle en intelligence économique, les signaux faibles constituent aujourd’hui un véritable point fort pour l’entreprise qui sait bien les exploiter. La notion de signal …
La société chinoise China Science Publishing & Media Ltd (CSPM), a racheté avec succès une maison d'édition française, Edition Diffusion Presse Sciences SA...
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Le philosophe québécois Alain Deneault fustige un monde où, avec la transformation des métiers en "travail", le "moyen" est devenu la norme. Interview.
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Introduction La valeur du trait d’union du mot « enseignant-chercheur » a été plusieurs fois soulignée par différents auteurs (voir notamment Poteaux, 2013), tant les deux fonctions semblent intrin...
In 2012, Mashable had published an article called “Technology Creating a Generation of Distracted Students” which reported the results of a study done by Pew Research Center. According to their data, about 90 percent of 2,500 education professionals agreed that contemporary technology had created a generation which struggled to concentrate, was prone to distraction, yet apt with web search and quick to find any information.
Those changes in our capacity to concentrate has society-wide effects: a recent article by Fortune publicized the findings of Educational Testing Service (ETS) which indicated steep decline in American Millenials’ literacy, numeracy and something called ‘problem-solving in technology-rich environments'; as compared not only to their peers abroad but to the older generations in the US. “We’ve forced companies to make technology that’s extremely easy to use, and that’s better at doing our day-to-day tasks than we are”, said Andy Campbell in a Huffington Post article.
In today's environment, 24 hours is not enough time, so people turn to quick and fast ways to get the information they want/need. But what is the impact on retention, "changes in our capacity to concentrate has society-wide effects." So are people really learning anything from the 60-second sessions that are now available?
To be curious is to inquisitive as to what lies beyond the horizon of our own ignorance and understanding. It's a primary driver of human nature, a strong motivator into action, and gets us in eq
As Goodhart’s law states: ‘when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure’. Using bibliometrics to measure and assess researchers has become increasingly common, but does implement…
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