[milesvp]

This anecdote doesn’t surprise me, there was a study done some years ago that looked at paper citations and there was a strong correlation with diversity of the team and citations. What I remember of the excerpt was that they didn’t just look at common things like gender and skin tone, but also tried to take into account class and economic diversity as well.

I didn’t scrutinize the paper as much as I probably should have, but it definitely fit with my personal experience that diverse teams tend to be better. (yay confirmation bias!)