It's also the first film to make the case that, in certain circumstances, group sex might constitute an act of patriotism.
The field visit and interview of targeted beneficiaries and other stakeholders includes the following methods depending on the circumstances: group discussion, individual interview.
The central argument is that, under the right circumstances, groups are smarter than the smartest people within them.
In his new book, "The Wisdom of Crowds," James Surowiecki argues eloquently that "under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably intelligent, often smarter than the smartest people in them".
Under those circumstances, groups look at more information against the majority view than for it, and they're less confident in their original preferences.
Now Wilson believes that this theory is wrong, and that, instead, the key … is the group: Under certain circumstances, groups of cooperators can out-compete groups of non-cooperators, thereby ensuring that their genes — including the ones that predispose them to cooperation — are handed down to future generations.
Under the right circumstances groups are remarkably smart, smarter even sometimes than the smartest people in them.
This is consistent with the argument put forth by Sandler (1992) who has shown that in particularly demanding circumstances groups of people will act in a cooperative manner.
In contrast, in a distinct line of research on collaborative recall, psychologists have found that in many circumstances groups working together remember less than a nominal group, measured as the pooled sum of non-redundant items remembered by the same number of individuals (Weldon and Bellinger 1997; Basden, Basden, and Henry 2000; Harris, Paterson, and Kemp 2008).
