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I agree with points two and five. One, three and four are exactly the ones I have problem with. Basically 60% of their conclusion is wrong. This is from their article.
Separately:
1) I can agree with this if they're using the word 'diversity' to refer to equality: of course that opening up your business for talented people and ignoring their group membership raises profits. If you're a bigot and you hire the dumber straight guy over the bright gay guy then of course your profit will suffer lol, that's a no-brainer. IF on the other hand they're referring to actual 'diversity' (i.e.
preferring minority groups or whatever just because), they are literally committing the same mistake as the bigot who didn't hire the gay guy just because and their profit WILL suffer just as much lol.
2) I've seen statistics related to women and decision making and I can trust this. I'm not so sure about minority groups being key consumer decision makers; after all, women are not exactly a minority group lol. And there's a very obvious argument for why women make consumer decisions: men want sex. It's so fucking simple even a fool could understand it. No issue with it and I could see an argument for 'diversity' helping profit here.
3) I
highly doubt this is the case. Even assuming ppl aren't bigoted racists (which for some reason... this study does assume, so how the fuck did they come to this conclusion), inevitably cultural differences will flare up and a misunderstanding will ensue. For example in Japan, I believe, it is considered polite to barf at the dinner table bc it's a sign you liked the meal. Likewise in Indonesia it's actually rude to compliment cooking bc it implies the food could've been bad (lol). To give an example that is a bit more useful, Dutch people are very direct and English people are NOT. Ppl not used to Dutch directness can find some of the shit Dutch ppl say quite rude; aside from that Dutch and especially German people are not particularly friendly; they're polite but it's quite hard to make friends with a Dutch person, and they're fairly intraverted - they're not particularly keen on talking to strangers, compared to say Spanish people. In short, it makes no sense to draw the conclusion they did.
4) I don't believe this. The last sentence especially irks me terribly. If diverse groups perform better than experts why the fuck do we even have universities or professions? Just force ppl to mix and to hell with whatever they think, because it's useful, right? Except it's not happening - which in itself is an argument against this way of thinking. I would like to see them produce evidence of this.
5) Obviously a no-brainer. I don't need to explain this. I agree with it.