Post 3.4

In an attempt to handle the poll results better, I decided to leave completed polls up for a day or so. Also, I have decided to run a 10k in January sometime...not sure of the exact date. I might keep you updated as to my preparation and its progression, if you don't mind. Anyway, here's your daily dose:

1. Some people sleep all alone every night instead of taking a lover to bed; some people find that it's easier to hate than to wait anymore.
   
2. If a defendant's culpable act shortens a person's stay on this planet, the law will not permit him to claim that his victim would have died anyway.
3. All the efforts of several hundred thousand people, crowded in a small space, to disfigure the land on which they lived; all the stone they covered it with to keep it barren; how so diligently every sprouting blade of grass was removed; all the smoke of coal and naphtha; all the cutting down of trees and driving off of cattle could not shut out the spring, even from the city.
4. Tell me and I will forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I will understand.
5. In order to seek truth it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt as far as possible all things.

Discuss. And, to the right is a new poll that requires some explanation. That question was recently posed to me. The intent was to ask whether a group of 4 students could answer a question no single member of the group could. Not split up the work of a multiple part question. Imagine a single line, straightforward question. Is there a group of 4 people in which no single member could answer the question correctly while the group can? In other words, is it possible for the measured collective intelligence of the group to be higher than any individual member's measured intelligence? Do we get smarter---literally---when we act together? I find it's a tough question to answer, and I'm wondering what you think.