Diversity, Not Randomness, Trumps Ability.

A number of formal models, including a highly influential model from Hong and Page, purport to show that functionally diverse groups often beat groups of individually high-performing agents in solving problems. Thompson argues that in Hong and Page's model, that the diverse groups are created by a r...

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Publicado en:Philosophy of Science Vol. 86; no. 1; pp. 178 - 192
Autor principal: Singer, Daniel J.
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Publicado: Cambridge University Press Jan2019
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