The difference : how the power of diversity creates better groups, firms, schools, and societies /

Main Author: Page, Scott E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, c2007.
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245 1 4 |a The difference :  |b how the power of diversity creates better groups, firms, schools, and societies /  |c Scott E. Page. 
260 1 4 |a Princeton, NJ :  |b Princeton University Press,  |c c2007. 
300 1 4 |a xxiv, 424 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 24 cm. 
504 1 4 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-410) and index. 
505 1 4 |a Prologue : how diversity trumps ability : fun at Caltech -- Introduction : unpacking our differences -- 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 -- 6. Diversity and problem solving : Darwin's brass tacks -- 7. Models of information aggregation : mindless signals -- 8. Diversity and prediction : the crowd of models -- 9. Diverse preferences : why tapas -- 10. Preference aggregation : four (not so) depressing results -- 11. Interacting toolboxes and preferences : go ask Alice -- 12. The causes of cognitive diversity : family vacations, college, or identity? -- 14. The empirical evidence : the pudding -- 14. A fertile logic : putting ideas to work -- Epilogue : the ketchup questions. 
650 1 4 |a Diversity in the workplace 
650 1 4 |a Multiculturalism 
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