[palmotea]

> I would recommend if anything a life-experiences checklist of the team collectively. Did any of them hail from rural poverty? Urban poverty? Did they attend a fancy dinner party? Were or are they disabled in some way? Can they read? Did they do factory work? Customer service work? Did any not go to colllege [sic]? Did they go to college?

I think such a wide-ranging exercise is likely to waste time and not help the team's performance. It might serve some other purpose, but improving team performance is not it.

> An auto engineering team may or may not have anybody with factory floor experience but all will have worked in the auto industry.

An auto engineering team with some guy who used to work on the factory floor is exactly the kind of diversity that I think would actually improve team performance.