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I do think that people over-hype how useful diversity is, but I always worried that ethic tensions and whatnot would hurt productivity, so I am glad to see that
by genrilz 2y ago
I do think that people over-hype how useful diversity is, but I always worried that ethic tensions and whatnot would hurt productivity, so I am glad to see that this study supports the harmlessness of diversity.
I wish that the twitter user had cited the study, because I would have liked to actually read the thing. Noting that I haven't read the study though, I would like to put the following pro-diversity argument which I think is relevant and probably isn't covered by this graph:
Diversity helps create products which are useful to larger segments of the population. An instance of this in tech would be Bumble, which was created by a woman. The idea is basically be Tinder but the woman has to initiate the conversation after a match occurs. This apparently partially solves the problem where women feel inundated with messages and leave the platform. The result is that Bumble's gender ratio is 65% male as opposed to Tinder's 75% male.
- paulddraper 2y agoA. I too was mildly surprised (but glad) it didn't have a harmful effect. B. The author does cite the analysis, at the end of the thread. https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/nscd4 https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/nscd4 It is 130 pages.
- genrilz 2y agoThanks for the link, I don't have twitter, so I can't see the thread. I'd saw neom post the link immediately after I made my comment, so I've had a skim through. My argument is most similar to the opposite of H3a, which states: "Diversity has a more negative link to performance in tasks that focus on maximizing production of an output with a pre-defined strategy." It seems like their conclusion is that the level of creativity needed for a task is not a significant moderator of the link between diversity and production, although they note that the number of studies measuring this is small.
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