In the vacation increases productivity. Sounds funny, but often so. The staffing in the Department is at this time so thin that it is almost transparent. But it still popped: All of the remaining colleagues, many of them have creative ideas, and in spite of high load, it runs in minimal occupation amazingly well. To all ausgeflogenen colleagues are back from vacation and back crunches. Sometimes Stress and frustrations rise, the more people working on one thing. Just sociologists have published James Evans of the University of Chicago a study in Nature that identified the phenomenon described in a similar Form in the Sciences. Their analysis of 65 million studies, patents, and software products from the years 1954 to 2014 shows that the greatest ideas come mostly from small Teams.
The researchers used in other disciplines, well-established Index on the by impact force or Disruptivität of new ideas and insights measured. This so-called Disruption Score quantifies, in a roughly simplified, the creative value of a study, of a patent or a Software.
groups enormously smarter people have already made tremendously stupid decisions.
Cross-examined decades and disciplines, small Teams delivered better results than large. The observed relation was almost linear: Ten researchers had in common most of them are better ideas than 20; and two better than three. It was similar to how if half the Department is on vacation – it is very tiring, but it’s also somewhat moving. The results validate the work of large research collaborations: It is so, say the sociologists, that they Shine, above all, to review existing concepts and in Detail. “Great Teams deal with the limits of current knowledge, immerse yourself in it and wring out the towel,” the magazine quoted The Atlantic Evans. An example: Albert Einstein, the concept of gravitational waves, the confirmed 2016, a Team of more than 1000 researchers finally postulated.
’t Just the Idiot
Small teams and single fighters deepen, however, are more in abseitigere or fallow fields of research, which presumably is easier for big Surprises emerge, which can then shake a discipline. Similar relationships have been identified by other researchers in the Economic system: Revolutionary ideas and products come mostly from small companies. Large corporations develop, however, are more (profitable) administrators of existing products, Refine them further and to differentiate.
in fact, seems to be the size of the group to be the relevant Variable and not the potential of single individuals, such as Evans and his colleagues report. Who’s managed to solo Big, not inspired a Team to exceptional. This phenomenon is observed psychologists in other contexts. In brainstorming, the number and quality of ideas fall brood, the more people to each other. Probably any idea of forcing comrades-in-arms on a mental path, of which you will not deviate more then all the thinking in the same direction.
If many agree with an opinion, then keep the dissenters prefer the mouth.
The history of mankind abounds, moreover, in front of examples in which groups are enormously smarter people have enormously made stupid decisions. The planning of the Bay of pigs Invasion in Cuba, by the CIA in 1961, earning a noise at the end of disgrace, is considered to be an example for the phenomenon that has been dubbed the psychologist Irving Janis “groupthink”. The members of the planning round were all agreed, and that their ideas were based on the same assumptions – no one plays the devil’s advocate, criticized the plans and potential issues pointed out.
In groups in General, quickly pressure to conform. If many agree with an opinion, then keep the dissenters prefer the mouth to the Expo and to be at the end of the other as an Idiot.
This stifles creativity and accelerated the radicalization of the group. This has been shown by the psychologists David Myers, Paul Bach and George Bishop are already in the 1970s. If all represented the same view, only more according to the most representative. In one of the research teams: If the basic ideas are established, can dig large groups deeper into this. In order to develop new, unconventional theories, researchers need to from conformity pressure. It only takes a few comrades-in-arms is easier than with many.
the Value of both approaches – the majority of the workers are glad if the colleagues from the holidays are back. No matter how fruitful their work in the meantime. (Editorial Tamedia)
Created: 02.03.2019, 20:24 PM
