Which two heads are better than one? Uncovering the positive effects of diversity in creative teams

Are two heads better than one?

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In Question Answering, Two Heads Are Better Than One

Motivated by the success of ensemble methods in machine learning and other areas of natural language processing, we developed a multistrategy and multi-source approach to question answering which is based on combining the results from different answering agents searching for answers in multiple corpora. The answering agents adopt fundamentally different strategies, one utilizing primarily knowl...

Are Two Heads Always Better Than One in Collaborative Programming?

The software industry continues to struggle with producing quality software in the most efficient manner. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the use of newer, innovative development methods, which embrace high levels of collaboration, may be a viable solution to this problem. While collaboration has always been used, these techniques emphasize high levels of interpersonal collaboration during the...

Two (or more) heads are better than one.

Two Heads Are Better Than One, but How Much?

Many theories of causal learning and causal induction differ in their assumptions about how people combine the causal impact of several causes presented in compound. Some theories propose that when several causes are present, their joint causal impact is equal to the linear sum of the individual impact of each cause. However, some recent theories propose that the causal impact of several causes...