2024/02/02 by Georgi Karadzhov, Andreas Vlachos, Karadzhov, Georgi +3 · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Gender Diversity and Inequality
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2402.01427
openalex publication_date 2024/02/02 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We explore different aspects of cognitive diversity and its effect on the success of group deliberation. To evaluate this, we use 500 dialogues from small, online groups discussing the Wason Card Selection task - the DeliData corpus. Leveraging the corpus, we perform quantitative analysis evaluating three different measures of cognitive diversity. First, we analyse the effect of group size as a proxy measure for diversity. Second, we evaluate the effect of the size of the initial idea pool. Finally, we look into the content of the discussion by analysing discussed solutions, discussion patterns, and how conversational probing can improve those characteristics. Despite the reputation of groups for compounding bias, we show that small groups can, through dialogue, overcome intuitive biases and improve individual decision-making. Across a large sample and different operationalisations, we consistently find that greater cognitive diversity is associated with more successful group deliberation. Code and data used for the analysis are available in the repository: https://github.com/gkaradzhov/cognitive-diversity-groups-cogsci24.