OT women make groups smarter MIT study

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Seems obvious that diverse viewpoints can lead to better decision-making. I've been disheartened by the level of irrationality I've found in all my workplaces, both male and female.

Then, there's this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/22/opinion/when-women-become-terrorists.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=c-column-top-span-region&region=c-column-top-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-top-span-region&_r=0

Laura

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Thanks. Folllowed through to the original paper in Science, which looks very interesting, indeed. I may do a paper on the paper, just to be appropriately postmodern about it....
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 8:04 AM, Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk> wrote:
Very interesting link. I've worked in female dominated environments for most of the last 10 years.

But jeez did you look at the comments! On the (UK) Guardian website the whole gamergate thing tends to gets dismissed as a journalists' obsession foisted on the readers. It looks a little more pervasive than that.



Rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote :



> Thanks for link I generally agree, I work with more often with women now and find on the whole things work better than when I worked on Wall Street. However, I think the dynamic changes somewhat when meetings are made up of mostly womenrichOn Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 7:48 PM, Joseph Tracy <











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