At 3:54 PM -0700 3/11/13, Dan Harkins wrote:
Do you feel that
an all-female group is stupider than a similarly sized group that is
equal parts male and female?
Based on my own experience, I believe that a broad range of
background and experience improves the quality of decision making of
a group. This is not to say that administering a standardized IQ
test to a group would result in outcomes predictable by gender
diversity of the group. But it is to say that, for example, having
some people with implementation experience is a good thing in
protocol design discussions.
We've been veering into narrow discussions of race and gender
diversity, but earlier messages in this thread discussed diversity
along other lines, for example, type of employer (large, small,
equipment vendor, university) and operational experience with
networks in different geographic regions. Let's not fall into a
rat-hole of narrow considerations of diversity.
--
Randall Gellens
Opinions are personal; facts are suspect; I speak for myself only
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