The Difference
How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies
1st Edition
Published on 13. May 2025
456 pages
978-0-691-27175-0 (ISBN)
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English
Place of publication
Princeton, NJ
United States
Publishing group
De Gruyter
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
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Reflowable
Illustrations
49 b/w illus. 67 tables.
49 b/w illus. 67 tables.
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978-0-691-27175-0 (9780691271750)
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Scott Page
The Difference
How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies
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05/2025
Princeton University Press
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Scott E. Page is the John Seely Brown Distinguished University Professor of Complexity, Social Science, and Management and the Williamson Family Professor of Business Administration at the University of Michigan. His books include The Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface to the Princeton Classics Edition
- Preface to the 2008 Paperback Edition: Prufrock Avoided
- Acknowledgments: The Continuous Life
- Prologue. How Diversity Trumps Ability: Fun at Caltech
- Introduction: Unpacking Our Differences
- Part One. Unpacking the Toolbox
- 1. Diverse Perspectives: How We See Things
- 2. Heuristics: Do the Opposite
- 3. Interpretations: Our Own Private Flatland
- 4. Predictive Models: Judging Books by Their Covers
- 5. Measuring Sticks and Toolboxes: Calipers for the Brain
- Part Two. Diversity's Benefits: Building from Tools
- 6. Diversity and Problem Solving: Darwin's Brass Tacks
- 7. Models of Information Aggregation: Mindless Signals
- 8. Diversity and Prediction: The Crowd of Models
- Part Three. Diverse Values: A Conflict of Interests (Or Is It)?
- 9. Diverse Preferences: Why Tapas
- 10. Preference Aggregation: Four (Not So) Depressing Results
- 11. Interacting Toolboxes and Preferences: Go Ask Alice
- Part Four. The Pudding: Does Diversity Generate Benefits?
- 12. The Causes of Cognitive Diversity: Family Vacations, College, or Identity?
- 13. The Empirical Evidence: The Pudding
- Part Five. Going on the Offensive
- 14. A Fertile Logic: Putting Ideas to Work
- Epilogue: The Ketchup Questions
- Notes
- Index
