social behaviour in bees

• Group Think Wins

Although the "average guess" tends to be superior, and crowd-wisdom substantial, there are limitations to the accuracy of collective intelligence. According to Stephen Pratt at Arizona State University, quorum decisions often have the effect of edging everyone in a group toward unanimity, as if by peer pressure. If a quorum happens to be wrong, then so is the unanimous decision. Quorum decisions, through herd pressure, can push groups of people to agree on verdicts that are incorrect, to make judgments that are faulty. Data shows that human collective decisions are erroneous more often than those made by ants, bees and other social animals. A recent Swarm Cognition Workshop concluded that "swarm intelligence" is a fundamental part of behaviour in animals, and that it is related to "grou...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• October 02, 2009

• R. v. A.M., 2008 SCC 19 (2008)

... development including reference to "Honey Bees Join the Bomb Squad" and talk of "sensors that wil... of drugs in our schools is a very serious social problem. Schools must be substantially free of ill... drugs, gangs, violence and anti-social behaviour? It is crucial to recognize that the presence of d...

• Supreme Court of Canada

• South Yukon Forest Corporation c. Canada, 2010 FC 495 (2010)

... of inventory and the environmental, social and political considerations involved in this proc... approaches and the impact their behaviour will definitely have on the long term relationship...

• Cour Fédérale

• Jane Jacobs: prophet of globalization? Yes, but with a (local) human face.

... necessarily explicitly - to denigrate the social safety net and promote social Darwinism, a combina... two syndromes - clusters of perceptible behaviour, traits, and conditions - which typify viable comm... sabotage our watersheds, or African `killer' bees that attack local honey-bee populations. All are t...

• Behind the Headlines
• Vol. 55 Nbr. 2, January 1998

• South Yukon Forest Corporation v. Canada, 2010 FC 495 (2010)

... of inventory and the environmental, social and political considerations involved in this proc... approaches and the impact their behaviour will definitely have on the long term relationship...

• Federal Court