The Difference : How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies - New Edition

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the Paperback Edition. Prufrock Avoided -- Acknowledgments. The Continuous Life -- Prologue. How Diversity Trumps Ability: Fun at Caltech -- Introduction. Unpacking Our Differences -- PART ONE. UNPACKING THE TOOLBOX -- 1. Diverse Perspectives. How We See Things -- 2. Heuristics. Do the Opposite -- 3. Interpretations. Our Own Private Flatland -- 4. Predictive Models. Judging Books by Their Covers -- 5. Measuring Sticks and Toolboxes. Calipers for the Brain -- PART TWO. DIVERSITY’S BENEFITS: BUILDING FROM TOOLS -- 6. Diversity and Problem Solving. Darwin’s Brass Tacks -- 7. Models of Information Aggregation. Mindless Signals -- 8. Diversity and Prediction. The Crowd of Models -- PART THREE. DIVERSE VALUES: A CONFLICT OF INTERESTS (OR IS IT)? -- 9. Diverse Preferences. Why Tapas -- 10. Preference Aggregation. Four (Not So) Depressing Results -- 11. Interacting Toolboxes and Preferences. Go Ask Alice -- PART FOUR. THE PUDDING: DOES DIVERSITY GENERATE BENEFITS? -- 12. The Causes of Cognitive Diversity. Family Vacations, College, or Identity? -- 13. The Empirical Evidence. The Pudding -- PART FIVE. GOING ON THE OFFENSIVE -- 14. A Fertile Logic. Putting Ideas to Work -- Epilogue. The Ketchup Questions -- Notes -- Index