One pivotal hypothesis raised and proved in Garette Jones’s paper “Are Smarter Groups More Cooperative? Evidence from Prisoner’s Dilemma Experiments, 1959-2003” is that the smarter the students (which is measured through their SAT and ACT scores), the better cooperation they will perform. Moreover, with every 100 increase in combined SAT points, the likelihood of people choose to cooperate become 5 percent higher. This experiment of researching the correlation between individual intelligence and rate of cooperation had been carried since 1959. Throughout its long period of research, it’s obvious and robust that there’s a positive impact of IQ on cooperation among the observed in schools, and students at the elite schools cooperated more often
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It’s important to point out that in Frey and Detterman’s research, they regard the SAT as an intelligence test, rather than an academic exam.
The results presented in this paper demonstrate that regardless of test scores measuring individual intelligence, there’s a higher rate of cooperation at schools with more intelligent students. One example given in the paper is the comparison between typical schools, like Kent State and San Diego State, and elite schools like Pomona College and MIT. There’s a 21 percent increase in cooperation from schools scoring around 1000 in SAT to elite schools with scores around 1450. Based on the results, it’s indeed that smarter groups are better at cooperating in the Repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma environment.
All the above researches have supported the idea that groups with high cognitive abilities (more intellectual) appear to be more cooperative when playing a repeated prisoner’s dilemma. The difference in average intelligence is a crucial driving force of cooperative behavior. Also, intelligent individuals are more likely to be patient and remain perceptive which help creating …show more content…
But I suspect if the setting of the survey promoted such cooperation. By playing the prisoner’s dilemma repeatedly, random matched students will worry about the consequences after first round, which may lead to a different result from an experiment which players only play one time. I doubt the effectiveness of using money in the survey. School like Pomona and MIT are not only elite schools, but also private schools. The amount of money students value from elite private schools is different from students who go to state universities. Also the group that are examined are exclusively college students, I wonder if people graduated from college more than 10 year, 20 years would have the same results. Does smarter groups more cooperative regardless of
It’s important to point out that in Frey and Detterman’s research, they regard the SAT as an intelligence test, rather than an academic exam.
The results presented in this paper demonstrate that regardless of test scores measuring individual intelligence, there’s a higher rate of cooperation at schools with more intelligent students. One example given in the paper is the comparison between typical schools, like Kent State and San Diego State, and elite schools like Pomona College and MIT. There’s a 21 percent increase in cooperation from schools scoring around 1000 in SAT to elite schools with scores around 1450. Based on the results, it’s indeed that smarter groups are better at cooperating in the Repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma environment.
All the above researches have supported the idea that groups with high cognitive abilities (more intellectual) appear to be more cooperative when playing a repeated prisoner’s dilemma. The difference in average intelligence is a crucial driving force of cooperative behavior. Also, intelligent individuals are more likely to be patient and remain perceptive which help creating …show more content…
But I suspect if the setting of the survey promoted such cooperation. By playing the prisoner’s dilemma repeatedly, random matched students will worry about the consequences after first round, which may lead to a different result from an experiment which players only play one time. I doubt the effectiveness of using money in the survey. School like Pomona and MIT are not only elite schools, but also private schools. The amount of money students value from elite private schools is different from students who go to state universities. Also the group that are examined are exclusively college students, I wonder if people graduated from college more than 10 year, 20 years would have the same results. Does smarter groups more cooperative regardless of