The difference How the power of diversity creates better groups, firms, schools, and societies
Book - 2008
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- Published
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press
2008.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- [Pbk. ed.]
- Item Description
- "With a new preface by the author."
Originally published: 2007. - Physical Description
- xxx, 424 p. : ill
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9780691138541
- Preface to the Paperback Edition: Prufrock Avoided
- Acknowledgments: The Continuous Life
- Prologue: How Diversity Trumps Ability: Fun at Caltech
- Introduction: Unpacking Our Differences
- Part 1. 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 2. 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 3. 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 4. The Pudding: Does Diversity Generate Benefits?
- 12. The Causes of Cognitive Diversity: Family Vacations, College, or Identity?
- 13. The Empirical Evidence: The Pudding
- Part 5. Going on the Offensive
- 14. A Fertile Logic: Putting Ideas to Work
- Epilogue: The Ketchup Questions
- Notes
- Index