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Collective identity






  A collective identity is a sense of belonging, the identity to the group, the collective. From an individual perspective, the collective identity forms a part of their personal identity.



 A social group, like mothers, aware of their shared traits and circumstances, acting as a community, achieving solidarity. Rather than existing as separate individuals, people come together in dynamic groups sharing knowledge and resources.



  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of Transcendental Meditation, used the term  'hive mind'  to describe how the combined coherence in consciousness of a group of people could have an influence on the rest of society.



  Atlee and Por say a collective intelligence involves a single focus of attention and a standard of metrics, a provisional threshold of action.



  Team players respectful of collective intelligence are confident of their own abilities, knowing the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Maximizing collective intelligence means forming a suggestion box taking input from all members. Groupthink hampers collective intelligence by limiting input to a few select members and filtering suggestions without development to implementation.



  Tom Atlee comments though humans have the ability to gather and analyze data, they are affected by culture, education and social institutions. Humans lack in the balance of innovation and reality.



  The wisdom of the crowd is the process of taking account of the collective opinion of a group rather than a single expert to answer a question.



  The wisdom of the crowd applies to democratic journalism, a group of non-experts determine what news is important. People outside the group can view the news based on those rankings.



  The crowd tends to make its best decisions made up of diverse opinion. A crowd of like-minded people can cause bias and cloud their judgment . They work best when they have the right answer to mainly math or geography.





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