{"id":2359,"date":"2021-02-17T22:06:39","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T03:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/monoculture"},"modified":"2024-10-04T19:55:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T19:55:11","slug":"monoculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/monoculture\/","title":{"rendered":"Monoculture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sara Wachter-Boettcher&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sarawb.com\/books\">Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and other Threats of Toxic Tech<\/a>, points to meritocracy and monoculture as the problem:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In all that research about the benefits of diversity, one finding sticks out: it can feel harder to work on a diverse team. \u201cDealing with outsiders cause friction, which feels counterproductive,\u201d writes researchers David Rock, Heidi Grant, and Jacqui Frey. But experiments have shown that this type of friction is actually helpful, because it leads teams to push past easy answers and think through solutions more carefully. \u201cIn fact, working on diverse teams produces better outcomes precisely because it\u2019s harder,\u201d they conclude. That\u2019s a tough sell for tech companies, though. As soon as you invite in \u201coutsiders\u201d who questions the status quo\u2026 who ask whether the choices being made are ethical &#8211; it\u2019s hard to skate by without scrutiny anymore. As a result, maintaining the monoculture becomes more important than improving products.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maintaining the monoculture becomes more important than improving products&#8230;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[67,33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2359"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2837,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359\/revisions\/2837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}