[WikiEN-l] The WP Challenge: Healthy Collaboration

[Marc Riddell]

on 1/18/11 2:10 PM, Fred Bauder at fredbaud at fairpoint.net wrote:

>> The importance to the individual of collaborating within a group. And the
>> importance to the group in recognizing, and nurturing, the individual.
>> 
>> From:
>> "Amy Chua Is a Wimp"
>> By DAVID BROOKS
>> Published: January 17, 2011
>> NYT
>> 
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/18/opinion/18brooks.html?nl=todaysheadlines&e
>> mc=tha212
>> 
>> "Most people work in groups. We do this because groups are much more
>> efficient at solving problems than individuals (swimmers are often
>> motivated
>> to have their best times as part of relay teams, not in individual
>> events).
>> Moreover, the performance of a group does not correlate well with the
>> average I.Q. of the group or even with the I.Q.'s of the smartest
>> members.
>> 
>> "Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Carnegie
>> Mellon have found that groups have a high collective intelligence when
>> members of a group are good at reading each others' emotions ‹ when they
>> take turns speaking, when the inputs from each member are managed
>> fluidly,
>> when they detect each others' inclinations and strengths.
>> 
>> "Participating in a well-functioning group is really hard. It requires
>> the
>> ability to trust people outside your kinship circle, read intonations and
>> moods, understand how the psychological pieces each person brings to the
>> room can and cannot fit together."
>> 
>> This also presents to how "home schooling" can produce the
>> socially-challenged.
>> 
>> Be healthy,
>> 
>> Marc Riddell
> 
> Heh,
> 
> All backwards, her children, hungry for safe opportunities for social
> interaction, will be sitting at home editing Wikipedia most evenings.
> Nightclubbing and ski weekends is just not going to work for them. We can
> look forward to substantial contributions to math and music.
> 
> Fred
> 
And you consider Wikipedia, right now, to be a "safe opportunity for social
interaction"!? Please take a closer, more-objective look, Fred.

Marc