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Diversity can foster innovation.


Didn't know skin pigment contributed to innovation.

"Diversity" is empty HR speak, please specify which kind of diversity fosters innovation.


> please specify which kind of diversity fosters innovation

To keep an open mind I did a thought experiment and found a few: entertainment, fusion food, music, those things I'd imagine benefit greatly from diversity.


You told me human endeavors in which "diversity" (which again, means nothing) fosters innovation. But that wasn't my question. I asked what kind of diversity fosters innovation, not what kind of innovation is fostered by diversity


To err on the side of being as polite as possible: In some grim scenarios, diversity led to certain situations that gave rise to big innovations.


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Im not a bot.


I already told you this is not what I asked. Your replies are all over the place and I sincerely am not understanding them.

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wow, you edited your whole long form reply and just replaced it with "I'm not a bot"? That's such a misleading and dishonest thing to do for everyone reading these posts from now onwards


Diversity of world view and human experience foster innovation.

If you hire all of the same socioeconomic strata even if they are different races chances are you will not get a wide depth of experience and world view


Often it seems tech companies (and certainly many others) almost explicitly hire people with similar viewpoints--not merely accidentally arriving at homogeneity by way of socioeconomic strata, but by strongly broadcasting ideological statements.


True, but still better than the alternative.


The commonly held definition of 'diversity' needs more diversity - to mean more than skin color quotas.


Maybe they should do something geographical. Let's say hire a person per country and then start again. You know building actually distributed and diverse teams.




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