Woolley and colleagues’ collective intelligence factor describes a general dimension of performance across small-group tasks. It identifies a psychometric research construct rather than a platform feature or participation count. Its evidence must retain study conditions and cannot directly validate Lévy’s societal claims or guarantee organizational outcomes.
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What these mean
Editorial orientation · Family
Model
In this series, Model names the editorial family primarily used to understand and explain communication: theories, frameworks, effects, traditions, principles and other conceptual resources. It is an umbrella for a route into the field, not a claim that every included object is a predictive model.
Editorial orientation · Category
Concepts & Constructs
Delimits an entity, property, relation or condition relevant to understanding communication. Its principal contribution is to clarify what something means, which features constitute it, and how to recognize or distinguish it.