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There's no empirical proof that diversity is a good thing. Historically people seemed to do fine without any diversity. E.g. most of modern science and technolo
by maverick_iceman 10y ago
There's no empirical proof that diversity is a good thing. Historically people seemed to do fine without any diversity. E.g. most of modern science and technology was discovered/invented by white men. Lack of diversity didn't become a handicap for them.
Disclaimer: I'm a non-white male.
- robotresearcher 10y ago> Lack of diversity didn't become a handicap for them. How about the opportunity cost of not using the women and non-white people?
- solipsism 10y agomost of modern science and technology was discovered/invented by white men. Lack of diversity didn't become a handicap for them I believe there are probably good arguments for diversity being overvalued. That is not one of them. That would flunk you out of Logic 101.
- ken47 10y agoI'm not sure why this is down voted. Just because X historically achieved A doesn't imply that achievement(X+Y) <= A, so you can't deduce the absence of a handicap from that.
- rwmj 10y ago"Groups of diverse problem solvers can outperform groups of high-ability problem solvers" http://www.pnas.org/content/101/46/16385.full http://www.pnas.org/content/101/46/16385.full By the way, the paper is a lot of words and math to explain that homogeneous groups can fall into local minima, whereas diverse groups can find better minima. I don't necessarily claim it disproves what you say, but it is at least a paper on the subject.