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Diversity Makes Projects More Successful

posted by on Thursday March 30 2017, @11:59PM   Printer-friendly
from the McKinsey-says dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

Open source projects are by their nature intended to be welcoming, pulling in contributions from many different volunteers. But in reality, open source and the tech industry in general often lack diversity. Speaking at the Open Source Leadership Summit in February, Mozilla's Chief Innovation Officer Katharina Borchert told the crowd that working to bring ethnic, gender, and skill diversity to open source projects isn't just the right thing to do because of moral grounds, it's the right thing to do to make projects more successful.

Me, I beg to differ. Pretty sure success has to do with the diversity of thought/ideas rather than genetic diversity.

Source: https://www.linux.com/news/learn/chapter/open-source-management/2017/3/diverse-projects-more-successful

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by TheRaven on Friday March 31 2017, @09:55AM (9 children)

    by TheRaven (270) on Friday March 31 2017, @09:55AM (#487006) Journal
    The assertion from genetics is that two people from different racial groups are likely to have as much genetic material in common as two from different racial groups. Within a smaller population, there are typically markers that are more common in a particular group than in others, because people tend to breed with others that live nearby, but a black and a white person (for example) from families that have lived in one area for a few hundred years are likely to have more genetically in common than they will with people of the same colour from a few thousand miles away.
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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday March 31 2017, @10:31AM (8 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Friday March 31 2017, @10:31AM (#487022) Homepage Journal

    Then skip genetics. Bone structure alone is often enough to tell the race of a person.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31 2017, @11:34AM (6 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31 2017, @11:34AM (#487035)

      > Bone structure alone ...

      Wow, the truth comes out, TMB is a student of Phrenology!
      http://skepdic.com/phren.html [skepdic.com]
      https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2013/feb/05/django-unchained-racist-science-phrenology [theguardian.com]
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrenology [wikipedia.org]

      • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday March 31 2017, @12:02PM (4 children)

        by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Friday March 31 2017, @12:02PM (#487045) Homepage Journal

        Yup. I can tell by the shape of your head that you're doomed to be a Useful Idiot. Turn a bit to the left and I can adjust that for you though. *hefts a ball-peen hammer*

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        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31 2017, @04:02PM (3 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31 2017, @04:02PM (#487132)

          So do you consider yourself a master troll? Or are the bulk of your posts on this site serious?

          • (Score: 3, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday March 31 2017, @06:15PM (2 children)

            by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Friday March 31 2017, @06:15PM (#487209) Homepage Journal

            Both, though I wouldn't consider myself a Grand Master or anything so ambitious.

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            • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31 2017, @08:34PM (1 child)

              by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31 2017, @08:34PM (#487311)

              Yer an idiot then, got it, confirmed, moving on.

              • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday March 31 2017, @11:28PM

                by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Friday March 31 2017, @11:28PM (#487376) Journal

                No, no, he's evil, not stupid. He's a Master Baiter. A Public Master Baiter at that!

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31 2017, @03:14PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31 2017, @03:14PM (#487106)

        Given the physical appearance of a single tooth, one can frequently identify race.

    • (Score: 2) by cmn32480 on Friday March 31 2017, @04:34PM

      by cmn32480 (443) <cmn32480NO@SPAMgmail.com> on Friday March 31 2017, @04:34PM (#487150) Journal

      See Elizabeth Warren's "high cheekbones".....

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