theorem on groups and their relative intelligence

[plural]

pondering this
a while
and well it
came up today
so
I thought
I would
scribble something here

I believe
that groups inherently
detract from the individual intelligence
of those who comprise that group.

for example

a soccer fan may be intelligent
but a stadium full of soccer fans
would lose to a pile of rocks
in the brains dept.
(don't get me started on football fans)

the difficulty for me
is determining the exact ratio of loss

it is obvious that
in sufficiently large groups
intelligence is reduce to zero
hence
the colloquial use of
"President Bush"

I would
propose the following
formula for determining group intelligence

average the IQ scores of the people in the group
and subtract 1 point of IQ from the average for
each member of the group

for our purposes we define a group
as three or more people

Comments

[plural.livejournal.com]

you make an excellent point as always
the group mind can
often help make less biased decisions
than a single individual as the weighting
of one persons bias is diluted

with regard to soccer or sports
fans in general, they seem
prone when in large groups
to act as a mindless mob

as is shown by
fatal incidents and riots
over the past few years.

and you are right, I
do not believe in democracy
never have really.
but as you will see
I will address that
in my next post