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> This is article is nothing more than a hidden message of praise to migration That is not true at all. From the article: the key to dealing with this proble
by jamesrcole 7y ago
> This is article is nothing more than a hidden message of praise to migration
That is not true at all. From the article:
the key to dealing with this problem is “cognitive diversity”. In other words, assembling a team of people with different perspectives and intellectual backgrounds.
It is not just about selecting people for teams from both sexes and various ethnicities (though that, too). Hire only Cambridge politics graduates (or Harvard MBAs or Stanford software engineers) and they will have studied under the same professors and absorbed similar world views, regardless of their gender or skin colour.
There are two elements to selecting a good team. First, assemble people with diverse viewpoints. ... A study of over 300 projects by the Rotterdam School of Management found that those led by junior managers were more likely to succeed than those led by senior managers—maybe because other team members were less intimidated about pointing out potential pitfalls to someone lower down the pecking order.
Your characterisation of the article as "nothing more than a hidden message of praise to migration" is completely off the mark, and it makes me think your comment was driven by a strong agenda.
- fetbaffe 7y agoWrong. The article clearly states "Immigrants account for 13% of the American population but 27.5% of those who start a new business. By their nature, migrants have more get-up-and-go than the average person—otherwise they wouldn’t move." If not that is an argument for more immigration I don't know what is.
- vharuck 7y agoThe problem is saying the entire point of the article is to encourage pro-migration sentiment. It's an incorrect generalization. It'd be like saying the entire reason you started a HN account was to point out articles you believe are pro-migration propaganda, and ignoring all the comments you've made about other topics.
- fetbaffe 7y agoArticle begins with stating it is bad to have white christian males in a group and the article concludes in the end it is better to have immigrants. Of course it is a praise to migration. Don't be naive. And your comparison doesn't even make sense, I'm not commenting on every article at the Economist, just this one.