It’s not going to be a silver bullet, but I think it would work well in contexts where the group of people who are in the conversation and how long it should last are well defined. Situations where an ad hoc committee is expected to meet and produce a solution to a problem, but there is no clear leader, for example. (Or there is a clear leader, but lacking expertise herself, she chooses to make use of this mechanism.)
It’d be nice to see a study on whether “EquaTalk” can produce the high “c” value observed in this study. (Disclosure: I didn’t read or even skim the linked paper.)
Robin Hanson had an old idea about this which I liked: http://hanson.gmu.edu/equatalk.html
It’s not going to be a silver bullet, but I think it would work well in contexts where the group of people who are in the conversation and how long it should last are well defined. Situations where an ad hoc committee is expected to meet and produce a solution to a problem, but there is no clear leader, for example. (Or there is a clear leader, but lacking expertise herself, she chooses to make use of this mechanism.)
It’d be nice to see a study on whether “EquaTalk” can produce the high “c” value observed in this study. (Disclosure: I didn’t read or even skim the linked paper.)