The difference : how the power of diversity creates better groups, firms, schools, and societies /
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- 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.