It’s exhausting you need a babysitter to do research for you, really. As if quoting Harvard Business Review was not enough.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100930143339.htm

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Journal Reference:

1. Anita Williams Woolley, Christopher F. Chabris, Alexander Pentland, Nada Hashmi, and Thomas W. Malone. Evidence for a Collective Intelligence Factor in the Performance of Human Groups. Science, September 30, 2010 DOI: 10.1126/science.1193147

Evidence for a Collective Intelligence Factor in the Performance of Human Groups

If you want to deep-dive in the analysis of the data, you can also contact the researchers that conducted the research:

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http://cci.mit.edu/malone/