Why Do Women Make Teams Smarter?

What if you could measure the intelligence of a group? What if you could predict which committees, assigned to design a horse, would end up with a camel, versus which would develop a thoroughbred—or a racecar? MIT professor Thomas Malone discusses why women can increase a group’s collective intelligence.

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