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A blue collar factory worker, a harvard grad management consultant, and a business researcher who are all white males try to reduce car part inventory through l
by JamesBarney 6y ago
A blue collar factory worker, a harvard grad management consultant, and a business researcher who are all white males try to reduce car part inventory through logistical innovation.
A black woman, a white man, and Asian woman who all graduated from Harvard and worked for McKinsey try to reduce car part inventory through logistical innovation.
I wouldn't be surprised if the more diverse group came up with a better solution.
To take your contrived example regional diversity will have a much larger impact on making sure someone has encountered a swamp than racial diversity.
I think it's easy to overestimate the effect of racial diversity and underestimate the effect of other types of diversities on problem solving style because one is so easy to see.
- shadowgovt 6y agoNo disagreement here, but if we're talking non-contrived examples, actual facial recognition cameras for video conferencing have gotten all the way to sold on store shelves with an inability to recognize black faces. I think it's fair to assume that had there been at least one black individual in the development pipeline, the company that made that camera would have avoided an embarrassing mistake.