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by serial_dev 1687 days ago
So which one is it? Is it"already shown by research" or "something that cannot be proven". You can't have it both ways.
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What I said was:

> Research shows more diverse teams deliver better results. You’re asking something that can’t be proven though: is this thing that is occurring better than the thing that didn’t occur. We can’t know the answer to that.

Research is based on the cumulative results of many recorded events, in which we try to garner a pattern of relationship.

A singular event might have two inputs: we either do the thing or we do not. We can observe the results of what we do, but we cannot observe the results of what we do not. With the aforementioned research, we can _estimate_ the results, and, in some cases, we should make decisions with those estimates in mind, but these are two entirely different concepts. Macro and micro.