diversity-beats-ability (dab)

📖 Definitions

"groups of diverse problem solvers can outperform groups of high-ability problem solvers" (Reijula and Kuorikoski 2021, 895).

💡 Examples

• "in assembling problem-solving teams, functional group diversity should sometimes be prioritized over selecting the most able individual members" (Reijula and Kuorikoski 2021, 895).

🔗 Relations

• depends on: epistemic diversity

📚 References

• Reijula, Samuli, and Jaakko Kuorikoski. 2021. “The Diversity-Ability Trade-Off in Scientific Problem Solving.” Philosophy of Science 88 (5): 894–905. https://doi.org/10.1086/714938.

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