Collective intelligence has been defined as intellectual performance on various types of tasks which is generated from a group (Oxford Review Encyclopedia of terms, 2024; Woolley et al., 2015). Group members may not have the similar intelligence, but when they interact/connect/participate/negotiate in some tasks, collective intelligence could emerge (Leimeister, 2010). From definition of collective intelligence, I would like to raise two points. First, I believe there is much evidence from research that support the existence of collective intelligence (e.g. in Woolley et al., 2010). Also, I would like to point that one form of collective intelligence may be shown in one form of what so called stereotype. There may be various types of stereotypes, but one form is that when a group of people who share the same culture may think or solve problems in the similar ways. This leads to think about the process of generating collective intelligence, as there is much evidence that it is challenging for individual to break free from their stereotype (e.g. Gershman, & Cikara, 2023; Rydell et al., 2010). Second, as collective intelligence is a product of group interaction, technically, in this blooming of ICT, group interaction may have expansion on its meaning. A group could be people who could interact to each other face to face coming from similar culture or a group could be people who interact online coming from totally different culture ( as mentioned in Leimeister, 2010).

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