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The Diversity–Innovation Paradox in Science
- CrazyStat 7y agoFull text available on arxiv.org: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.02063 https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.02063
- tastygreenapple 7y agoYikes, they included grievance studies in their data set. I'd like to see these results only for science Ph. Ds. I'm sure women / minority Ph. Ds seem super innovative when you have so many fields dedicated to validating their identity-focused perspectives.
- downerending 7y agoKind of a weird take: The abstract asserts "diversity breeds innovation" as a fact, but the introduction describes it as a "common hypothesis". I have little doubt that (say) a physicist from Bangladesh has a far harder time getting to the top of his field than an equally qualified one from the UK. It's not clear, though, that diversity per se improves the quality of physics research.