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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's the thing. Diversity is the new modern religion/ideology (or kool-aid depending on your views) for certain people. You see it in their tones on this thread, firmly believing in the sanctity of diversity without a single shred of evidence it delivers the benefits they claim (amazing engineering coming out of, say, Japan or China, which are hardly diverse,  so the idea that diversity for the sake of diversity gives you better ourcomes is more akin to religious beliefs than anything factual or truthful). And we all know what is really meant by diversity here. It's not more Asians or nowadays South Asians, who incidentally have had large presences in American engineering in the last 50 years. If we are being truthful, diversity mainly means the right quota of blacks, and in a profession like engineering, more women. Does it meaningfully make the outcome better? No. Does it make people feel better? Yes. Just like religion. [/quote]

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You say there is amazing engineering coming out of Japan and China that are "hardly diverse" but 1) it depends on what kind of engineering you are talking about, for one thing, 2) you don't know that they aren't compensating for a lack of some kinds of diversity by strategically building teams that have other kinds of diversity (like bringing in people with completely different kinds of industry backgrounds, or using personality testing to build teams that promote communication/competition for good ideas), and 3) Americans live in a diverse society so if you're talking about building things for the American market, they should probably be designed/engineered/built by teams that understand that whole market if you want them to come out of top. [/quote]

I can sorta see your point for certain commercial end items but that’s a subset of manufacturing. And for even commercial end use items, that’s a subset of the process. So, yes, for that subset of subsets, you would want to make sure you can evaluate what your full range of customers might want. Not sure engineers, no matter what their background is, are the best group for that though. Diverse or not, they’re still engineers. [/quote]

That's a strange position to hold, many other industries perceive that problem-solving improves when you have a more diverse team instead of a less diverse one. [/quote]

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