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> Other studies show that diversity significantly increases team performance Ah yes, “studies”, no doubt by “experts”. Think about how ridiculous this claim is
by jahewson 3y ago
> Other studies show that diversity significantly increases team performance
Ah yes, “studies”, no doubt by “experts”. Think about how ridiculous this claim is in the context of a software engineering team. What mechanism is supposed to be at work?
(With one exception - gender differences, that’s perfectly plausible).
- abenga 3y agoI would not care to work for a team where members flippantly disregard exclusion of significant subsections of the population from their ranks, for whatever excuse they design to choose. Either way. There are competent people of all colours, creeds, and classes, and if your company is not able to get any, there's something wrong with you.
- jahewson 3y agoIndeed, at scale, a company that is significantly unrepresentative of the population from which it draws its employees surely has something wrong with it. That’s basically what these studies show (flaws notwithstanding). But that’s got nothing to do with individual teams (unless they’re huge) which are far too small to exhibit population-level statistical behaviour. I see this claim repeated often but the sources always end up being these flimsy studies of company-wide public company reporting correlated with market performance.
- therealdrag0 3y agoAgree. Using market performance as the primary indicator of the success of failure of workplace attributes seems very suspect IMO. I can’t believe how much stock I’ve seen out in studies that just boiled down to “1 year trial showed 4 day workweek didn’t impact performance as measured by stock price.” wat.