How to Improve Performance in a Group Discussion?

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Group deliberation has been shown to improve performance in a number of studies. The results suggest that group discussion can help people get the right answer on difficult tasks. Scientists are now trying to understand how these effects work, and why they're so beneficial for groups.

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Deliberation. Debate. Conversation. Though it can feel like that’s what we are doing online as we trade arguments back and forth, most of the places where we currently gather make it much easier to produce arguments in isolation rather than evaluate them together in groups. The latest research suggests we will need much more of the latter if we hope to create a new, modern, functioning marketplace of ideas. In this episode, psychologist Tom Stafford takes us through his research into how to do just that.

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