Specialized intelligence in a group can be assessed by setting specific goals and measuring the group's performance in achieving those objectives. This evaluation relies on various metrics, such as profit margins and productivity in business contexts, or economic and social indicators for societies. Market performance can also be gauged using metrics like liquidity and price adjustment speed.

Observing Specialized Intelligence in Groups

Observing a group's collective general intelligence requires examining its adaptability and flexibility across various situations. General Electric (GE), for instance, has shown remarkable resilience and adaptability since its inception, spanning multiple industries and economic landscapes. Apple, similarly, has revolutionized several industries and continued to thrive even after the passing of its iconic founder, Steve Jobs. This persistence of success in companies suggests the presence of collective general intelligence, where high performers tend to stay successful, while low performers linger at the bottom. This phenomenon is studied in fields like management and economics to understand the underlying factors behind such variations in performance.

Observing General Intelligence in Groups

- Observing Specialized Intelligence
- Observing General Intelligence

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An intelligence test the measure the objective intelligence of a group the way that inelligence tests measure the intelligence of an individual. There are no widely used or created tests like this that exist. 

Intelligence Test for Groups

Malone, Thomas W. 2018. Superminds: The Surprising Power of People and Computers Thinking Together. Little, Brown Spark.

https://cci.mit.edu/superminds-by-thomas-w-malone/

Superminds: The Surprising Power of People and Computers Thinking Together

Observational Methods of Measuring Collective Intelligence

Measuring a group's collective intelligence through interventions requires selecting an aspect of their performance and observing their response. However, this can be challenging for large groups. For instance, a comprehensive intervention like starting a competing organization or offering substantial discounts to assess an organization's intelligence has limitations due to its scale. Smaller interventions, such as using "mystery shoppers" to evaluate customer service, are effective for assessing specialized intelligence. If these interactions involve diverse tasks, they can partially measure the organization's collective general intelligence. For example, by having a variety of mystery shoppers contact smartphone vendors' customer-service lines with different issues, one can assess collective intelligence across problem types. Discovering a common factor that predicts performance across these scenarios, as seen in small working groups, is an intriguing possibility.

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