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...

In this paper, we characterize a group's collective accuracy on a classification problem as a function of its diversity, size, and its member's individual accuracies. We first derive necessary and sufficient conditions on the individuals' classification models for the existence of an aggregation...