Can diversity make for better science? Although diversity has ethical and political value,
arguments for its epistemic value require a bridge between normative and mechanistic …

Most jobs require teamwork. Are some people good team players? In this paper, we design
and test a new method for identifying individual contributions to team production. We …

Virtual labs allow researchers to design high-throughput and macro-level experiments that
are not feasible in traditional in-person physical lab settings. Despite the increasing …

Most jobs require teamwork. Are some people good team players? In this paper we design
and test a new method for identifying individual contributions to group performance. We …

We study the connection between communication network structure and an organization's
collective adaptability to a shifting environment. Research has shown that network …

Decades of research suggest that information exchange in groups and organizations can
reliably improve judgment accuracy in tasks such as financial forecasting, market research …

Task complexity emerges as one of the factors affecting the computer-supported
collaborative learning (CSCL) process, group dynamics, and processes. Upon reviewing the …

Researchers have found that although external attacks, exogenous shocks, and node
knockouts can disrupt networked systems, they rarely lead to the system's collapse …

This dissertation consists of three papers about quantitative research methods in education.
Each paper is a response to potential limitations of the current approach to building …

Collective problem solving is supposed to benefit from cognitive diversity (eg, when a team
consists of individuals with different learning strategies). However, recent evidence for this …