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Does Diversity Trump Ability? An Example of the Misuse of Mathematics in the Social Sciences

Abigail Thompson · Notices of the American Mathematical Society 61(9), 1024–1030 · 2014

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Abigail Thompson
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DOI 10.1090/noti1163
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2026-09-01

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DisputedHong and Page modelled teams of problem-solving agents and found that a team of randomly selected agents can outperform a team of the best-performing agents, because the best agents become similar; Thompson criticised the result as an example of the misuse of mathematics in the social sciences.