1 See, for example, “Designed for Life” by Wendy Grossman, New Scientist, October 5, 2002, vol. 176, p. 2363.

2 For information regarding the optimal factors supporting group decision making and problem solving, see “Groups Perform Better Than the Best Individuals on Letters-to-Numbers Problems: Informative Equations and Effective Strategies” by Patrick Laughlin, Megan Zander, Erica Knievel, et al., Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2003, vol. 85(4), p. 684–694. See also “To Err Is Human, to Correct for It Divine: A Meta-Analysis of Research Testing the Functional Theory of Group Decision-Making Effectiveness” by Marc Orlitzky and Randy Hirokawa, Small Group Research, June 2001, vol. 32(3), p. 313–341.

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