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Honey bee democracy. (1-2 pages total)
a. What is honey bee democracy?
b. How do essentially brainless bees make collective decisions that yield optimal results? How does a community of bees decide where to relocate their new hive? What are the key decision making components of this process?
c. In what sense can distributed, decentralized decision making lead yield excellent results—consider the experiences of Wikipedia, Linux, the King James Bible, the maintenance of the world scientific enterprise, and the Oxford Dictionary of the English Language?

Solution

a. In a honey bee colony the supreme power is vested in the workers and exercised by them on a direct basis without any external interference.

b. When it comes to deciding on where to relocate the bees community is a two step process. Honey bees need a spacious and protective home. For this requirement bees carry out a

Criteria

High entrance: > 5 meters

Small entrance: < 15 sq cm

Spacious cavity: 40 liters

Sturdy cavity walls: live tree

c. a group of individuals, each with limited information & limited intelligence, achieve a high collective IQ

• group members share a decision-making goal

• group members possess diverse information

• group members share their information honestly

• group members express their judgments (vote) independently

• group aggregates its members’ judgments in an unbiassed way (e.g. one vote per person, majority rule, quorum sensing…)