Hive Mind
How Your Nation’s IQ Matters So Much More Than Your Own
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Stanford Economics and Finance
BBB Library: Psychology and Strengths
ISBN: 978-0804785969
Editorial Review
Animal researchers, computer scientists, and occasionally social scientists sometimes use the metaphor of “collective intelligence” or a “hive mind” to explain group actions. Indeed, human society in every nation today is a form of collective intelligence, in which the accumulated knowledge of the past makes its members richer today, and in which the many small, daily cognitive contributions of millions of their neighbors – in offices, in factories, in the halls of government, and elsewhere – help to make their lives better. Those millions of small cognitive contributions are what create each nation’s collective intelligence, each nation’s hive mind. The key question is whether a nation’s average IQ scores are an important driver of the hive mind.
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