{"id":1611,"date":"2015-12-30T23:10:22","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T07:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/?p=1611"},"modified":"2015-12-30T23:10:22","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T07:10:22","slug":"the-problem-with-group-brainstorming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/the-problem-with-group-brainstorming\/","title":{"rendered":"The problem with group brainstorming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s only one problem with group brainstorming: it doesn&#8217;t actually work. [&#8230;] Forty years of research has [&#8230;] shown that performance gets worse as group size increases: groups of nine generate fewer and poorer ideas compared to groups of six, which do worse than groups of four, [which do worse than people working individually].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[Despite]\u00a0all these years of evidence that conventional brainstorming groups don&#8217;t work, they remain as popular as ever. Participants in brainstorming sessions usually believe that their group performed much better than it actually did.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">-Susan Cain,\u00a0<em>Quiet<\/em> (p. 88-89)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s only one problem with group brainstorming: it doesn&#8217;t actually work. [&#8230;] Forty years of research has [&#8230;] shown that performance gets worse as group size increases: groups of nine generate fewer and poorer ideas compared to groups of six, which do worse than groups of four, [which do worse than people working individually].&#8221; &#8220;[Despite]\u00a0all &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/the-problem-with-group-brainstorming\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The problem with group brainstorming&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1612,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions\/1612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}