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The answer is a quick Google search away, diversity increases innovation: https://www.google.com/search?q=diversity+increases+innovation https://www.google.com

The answer is a quick Google search away, diversity increases innovation: https://www.google.com/search?q=diversity+increases+innovation https://www.google.com/search?q=diversity+increases+innovati... If you don't agree with that, I'd love to hear why, and why the related studies are false. Can start with this one, which is the first result: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.685.8132&rep=rep1&type=pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.685... There's quite the bibliography to pour through there, though, if you really want to shatter the science behind why diversity is a good thing. Good luck!

roenxi 8y ago
The study you linked has nothing to do with gender or diversity w.r.t. minorities. It's subject is economic geography. We can be pretty confident that if 50% of the population are women then 50% of the best candidates for a given job, by natural aptitude, are women. The same logic applies to minorities as well, so we can be confident that any process calibrated to finding the best person for the job is going to turn up a diverse workforce. However, once policies designed to enforce diversity come in to play, that correlation will be broken and you just have a sexist/racist/whatever hiring system.
- horistat 8y ago
  > We can be pretty confident that if 50% of the population are women then 50% of the best candidates for a given job, by natural aptitude, are women No, that's a false statement. We cannot remotely think that because it's completely wrong. The percentage of population of a gender has nothing remotely to do with the percentage of women qualified for any particular job.
- vixen99 8y ago
  No, we can't be 'pretty confident'. Sometimes the 'best' don't want to do the job. 90% of nurses are female (in Sweden where gender equality is a top priority). What would be the motivation to induce or somehow encourage males to take up a career for which they clearly have no particular enthusiasm. I wonder how many males harbour a secret desire to be a nurse but are discouraged by societal norms? Need some amazing evidence for that one.
  - belorn 8y ago
    What motivate a person to work? There is plenty of study that has asked this question and tried to quantify how much it is for money, a feeling of being useful, the social environment, perks, having fun, social status gain, and so on. Pretty sure more males harbour a secret desire to be a nurse than males that harbour a secret desire to be a garbage man, and yet we see nurses are 90% female and garbage men being 90% male. The question is why.
- tomp 8y ago
  > We can be pretty confident that if 50% of the population are women then 50% of the best candidates for a given job, by natural aptitude, are women You shouldn't be as confident as you're probably wrong. Women have on average better verbal intelligence, and men have on average better spacial intelligence. So we can be confident there are jobs where either men or women are more likely to be best candidates.
  - roenxi 8y ago
    No, I'm right. If you want to pick some super-specialist job that requires top 1% verbal skills then sure you want a woman doing it, but most jobs only require slightly above-average skills which will fall into a roughly 50-50 split. And even then you can't reasonably claim that most jobs are better performed by spatial or verbal thinking. Both tend to have their moments.

roenxi 8y ago

The study you linked has nothing to do with gender or diversity w.r.t. minorities. It's subject is economic geography. We can be pretty confident that if 50% of the population are women then 50% of the best candidates for a given job, by natural aptitude, are women. The same logic applies to minorities as well, so we can be confident that any process calibrated to finding the best person for the job is going to turn up a diverse workforce. However, once policies designed to enforce diversity come in to play, that correlation will be broken and you just have a sexist/racist/whatever hiring system.

horistat 8y ago
> We can be pretty confident that if 50% of the population are women then 50% of the best candidates for a given job, by natural aptitude, are women No, that's a false statement. We cannot remotely think that because it's completely wrong. The percentage of population of a gender has nothing remotely to do with the percentage of women qualified for any particular job.
vixen99 8y ago
No, we can't be 'pretty confident'. Sometimes the 'best' don't want to do the job. 90% of nurses are female (in Sweden where gender equality is a top priority). What would be the motivation to induce or somehow encourage males to take up a career for which they clearly have no particular enthusiasm. I wonder how many males harbour a secret desire to be a nurse but are discouraged by societal norms? Need some amazing evidence for that one.
- belorn 8y ago
  What motivate a person to work? There is plenty of study that has asked this question and tried to quantify how much it is for money, a feeling of being useful, the social environment, perks, having fun, social status gain, and so on. Pretty sure more males harbour a secret desire to be a nurse than males that harbour a secret desire to be a garbage man, and yet we see nurses are 90% female and garbage men being 90% male. The question is why.
tomp 8y ago
> We can be pretty confident that if 50% of the population are women then 50% of the best candidates for a given job, by natural aptitude, are women You shouldn't be as confident as you're probably wrong. Women have on average better verbal intelligence, and men have on average better spacial intelligence. So we can be confident there are jobs where either men or women are more likely to be best candidates.
- roenxi 8y ago
  No, I'm right. If you want to pick some super-specialist job that requires top 1% verbal skills then sure you want a woman doing it, but most jobs only require slightly above-average skills which will fall into a roughly 50-50 split. And even then you can't reasonably claim that most jobs are better performed by spatial or verbal thinking. Both tend to have their moments.