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Difference How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies

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ISBN-10: 0691128383

ISBN-13: 9780691128382

Edition: 2007

Authors: Scott Page

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Page redefines the way we understand ourselves in relation to one another. 'The Difference' is about how we think in groups - and how our collective wisdom exceeds the sum of its parts.
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Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 2/4/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 448
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.650
Language: English

Scott Page represents a classic entrepreneurial success story, building a pioneering insurance industry business from the ground up and helping thousands of Americans improve their financial lives. During a 25-year business career, he raised millions of dollars in investment capital from Wall Street but always with an eye on helping average citizens. He is an ongoing contributor to The Huffington Post on retirement issues and a regular guest on Fox Business Network.

Acknowledgments: The Continuous Life
Prologue: How Diversity Trumps Ability: Fun at Caltech
Introduction: Unpacking Our Differences
Unpacking the Toolbox
Diverse Perspectives: How We See Things
Heuristics: Do the Opposite
Interpretations: Our Own Private Flatland
Predictive Models: Judging Books by Their Covers
Measuring Sticks and Toolboxes: Calipers for the Brain
Diversity's Benefits: Building from Tools
Diversity and Problem Solving: Darwin's Brass Tacks
Models of Information Aggregation: Mindless Signals
Diversity and Prediction: The Crowd of Models
Diverse Values: A Conflict of Interests (or Is It)?
Diverse Preferences: Why Tapas
Preference Aggregation: Four (Not So) Depressing Results
Interacting Toolboxes and Preferences: Go Ask Alice
The Pudding: Does Diversity Generate Benefits?
The Causes of Cognitive Diversity: Family Vacations, College, or Identity?
The Empirical Evidence: The Pudding
Going on the Offensive
A Fertile Logic: Putting Ideas to Work
Epilogue: The Ketchup Questions
Notes
Index