Demonstrability and social combination processes on mathematical intellective tasks¶
Laughlin, & Ellis. (1986). Demonstrability and social combination processes on mathematical intellective tasks.
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- Assembly Bonus Effect
- The effect is task-contingent: it is most reliably observed on intellective or eureka-type problems where there is a demonstrably correct answer that non-solvers can recognize and be shown, where partial information is distributed across members, or where error-correction by a second perspective adds value; it is least likely on purely additive tasks, on tasks where the group can do no more than adopt whatever its best member already knows, and on tasks requiring synchronized motor performance, where coordination losses dominate
This sourceThe demonstrability condition — a task is intellective when it has a demonstrably correct solution within a shared conceptual system, and the group surplus depends on non-solvers being able to recognise that solution when it is proposed and on the solver being able to show it to them. The additive, best-member-capped and synchronized-motor half of this sentence is Steiner's task taxonomy rather than this paper's.
- The effect is task-contingent: it is most reliably observed on intellective or eureka-type problems where there is a demonstrably correct answer that non-solvers can recognize and be shown, where partial information is distributed across members, or where error-correction by a second perspective adds value; it is least likely on purely additive tasks, on tasks where the group can do no more than adopt whatever its best member already knows, and on tasks requiring synchronized motor performance, where coordination losses dominate
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