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I'm always sceptical when people say that diversity of colour somehow leads to diversity of thought.
by AllegedAlec 7y ago
I'm always sceptical when people say that diversity of colour somehow leads to diversity of thought.
- mcv 7y agoNot diversity of colour by itself maybe, but diversity of culture, and diversity of experience, are rather vital if you want multiple viewpoints and experiences to be represented. But there are more viewpoints than just cultural ones; no culture is completely homogenous in opinion.
- meheleventyone 7y agoA concrete example would be developing facial recognition algorithms. There are now several examples of them not working with black faces. It's definitely a lack of diversity of thought to not think about whole segments of society when designing such things. At the very least diversity of physical characteristics on the development team would help remind them they exist. More usually its that physical characteristics represent lives that are inaccessible to people without them. So people with different skin color, disabilities, sex, gender and background are all reasonable proxies for diversity of thought by the fact that these people all have very different lived experiences.