Meetings Make You Dumber

Newser.com:

A new study finds that group interactions can actually lower your intelligence.

Scientists in Virginia matched groups according to IQ, ranked members' performance on cognitive tasks against the others, and then revealed the rankings.

When group members were told how others had performed, "we saw dramatic drops in the ability of some study subjects to solve problems," explains the lead researcher. "The social feedback had a significant effect."

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Comments

[freethinking moderate]

10:39 PM on 01/23/2012

As a teacher at a so-called school, I can relate to this.

[bradthelad]

07:41 PM on 01/23/2012

Meetings lead to groupthink, and groupthink leads to lack of innovation. Dumber? It's all in how you define dumber.

[ziggy3339]

06:53 PM on 01/23/2012

Now that I think about it....I agree. Just finished the Steve Jobs book. He didn't like the power point presentations & I can see how that alone would slow up the process (yawn). It's great to brain storm, however when people get caught up in nonsense then it's just a cog in the wheel . I never enjoyed meetings unless I could pair them with something else (coffee, breakfast...anything productive). Often times after an "official" meeting I'd meet with people to REALLY get down to results oriented ideas. One of the things I noted in his book was his belief that "A" list people like to work with other "A" list people. Another words put the best people together to get best results. What do you think?

[tobo]

06:48 PM on 01/23/2012

Maybe that's because meetings are boring as hell, and totally uninspiring events?