Muñoz Adánez Alfredo
Sección Departamental de Psicología Social, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Psicologia, Campus de Somosaguas, 28223 Madrid, Spain.
Span J Psychol. 2005 Nov;8(2):215-20. doi: 10.1017/s1138741600005096.
The purpose of this work is to test the chief principle of brainstorming, formulated as "quantity generates quality." The study is included within a broad program whose goal is to detect the strong and weak points of creative techniques. In a sample of 69 groups, containing between 3 and 8 members, the concurrence of two commonly accepted criteria was established as a quality rule: originality and utility or value. The results fully support the quantity-quality relation (r = .893): the more ideas produced to solve a problem, the better quality of the ideas. The importance of this finding, which supports Osborn's theory, is discussed, and the use of brainstorming is recommended to solve the many open problems faced by our society.
这项工作的目的是检验头脑风暴的主要原则，即“数量产生质量”。该研究包含在一个广泛的项目中，其目标是检测创造性技术的优缺点。在一个由69个小组组成的样本中（每组3至8人），确立了两个普遍认可的标准的同时出现作为质量规则：新颖性和实用性或价值。结果充分支持了数量与质量的关系（r = 0.893）：为解决一个问题产生的想法越多，想法的质量就越高。讨论了这一支持奥斯本理论的发现的重要性，并建议采用头脑风暴来解决我们社会面临的许多未解决的问题。
