(Defenders quickly pointed out that five members of the New York City delegation also left before the vote. But the New York City delegation, which has the average intelligence of a large turnip, is not the ideal we want to shoot for).
When it comes to quantifiable judgments and practical decision-making, the aggregate intelligence of a large, diverse group of people apparently is usually better than that of any given individual, even if the individual is an expert on the question at hand.
In order to judge the adequateness of the measurement instruments, it is also necessary to reflect upon the fundamental workings of crowd intelligence, as crowd intelligence is not just intelligence of a large group.
A statement from the coalition forces in Afghanistan said several militants were killed in the airstrike, which was ordered after the forces received intelligence reports of a large gathering of combatants in Deh Bala.
The New Yorker, August 19 , 1950 P. 18Incidental Intelligence: An official of a large electric-equipment company was trying to find something in his secretary's files after hours and, going through the "H" drawer, came upon a fat folder marked "Happen.
By H. P. Converse and Geoffrey T. Hellman The New Yorker, August 19 , 1950 P. 18Incidental Intelligence: An official of a large electric-equipment company was trying to find something in his secretary's files after hours and, going through the "H" drawer, came upon a fat folder marked "Happen.
The field of artificial intelligence is a large one, full of interesting research, arguments, and people — so you could be forgiven (as I hope to be) for not being familiar with Joanna Bryson, professor of CS at the University of Bath who for decades has studied AI and its many ethical and technical conundra.
They have been granted use — if our intelligence can be trusted — of a large signals-intelligence base on the outskirts of Havana near the airport, a giant electronic ear-horn right off our shores, the price we pay for renouncing any involvement with a country so close.
"Mubarak took only 18 days although he had behind him the security, intelligence and a large sector of Egyptians," Amr Tawfeeq told the Associated Press.
Here, we used a molecular genetic approach to examine the genetic correlation between height and intelligence in a large sample of unrelated adults.
This hypothesis is supported by a recent genome scan for intelligence using a large sample of healthy sib-pairs, that revealed putative linkage on 6p25.3-6p22.3 [ 26], and by a linkage scan in schizophrenia patients reporting linkage at 6p24 to a neurocognitive deficit subtype of schizophrenia [ 27].
