[Applause]
I’m here to talk about competition
through diversity but before I do that I
want to talk about little me and I
wanted to be the best
so in all entry school we had the same
30 kids in every year we had the same 30
kids some left some state but we had to
teach her a year and that was fantastic
when it came to keeping the two friends
I had but it wasn’t very good when it
came to my effort as long as I kept days
I didn’t really try because well I’ll
renew I was worse than some people at
some things better than some people are
some things the best at Foursquare the
world has seen but other than that I
didn’t need to try that much but that
all changed in middle school when I go
to multimethods a radical culture change
because there are 200 different students
a day because of the six periods it’s
six different teachers a day and some of
those teachers and some of those
students would swap out every trimester
and instead of dealing with the same 25
30 kids year in year out I had to work
with and I got a bunch of different set
of perspective from my peers and coming
here in high school it was fantastic
because there are 2,000 some odd kids
here and I have to work with so many
people of different ages different
backgrounds different walks of life and
just the other day I was working on the
science project and we had to trace
evolution between humans and monkeys and
I didn’t get it for my life I hate
science
um I sorry guys I shouldn’t say that um
and I had my lab partner come over and
help me and he helped me trace the time
of it all which isn’t that interesting
in and of itself but my lab partner was
a junior I hadn’t been put in that
position where someone 2 years older
than me could come over and help me out
and age changes a lot Matt rotten cheese
you might have left in the fridge a
couple weeks ago wait a little longer
than it might become vintage so time and
age really matters and I mean I’m
special and fantastic and all that but
what does this have to do with the
bigger theme of diversity well there
have been studies done on diversity and
affirmative action things like that in
Forbes and Yale I want to talk about
this
by Harvard Business Review where they
took educated people and they put them
in simulated markets and they had
divided the participants up into groups
ethnically diverse in ethnically
homogeneous and they told them to try
and figure out the price of the stocks 1
year 2 year 3 years down the line and
what they found was that the ethnically
diverse groups were 58 percent more
likely to price the stocks accurately
than that in the ethnically homogeneous
groups now what the study authors
hypothesize was that the ethnically
homogeneous groups they had the same
methods of doing things they had the
same ideas so the ghazal solution faster
they didn’t have to fight as much to get
their way that was fantastic
but they also had the same problems with
their logic same flaws and no one was
there to help point that out ethnically
diverse groups they had conflicting
ideas conflicting methods and that
helped them overcome each other’s flaws
and biases and they could improve upon
their ideas and that is an outright
competition in which everyone’s trying
to gouge each other’s eyes out it was
more implicit that people trying to be
better they were trying to compete with
themselves to be better and we don’t
only see diversity helping people be
better in studies we also see in the
real world for example the double here
the double helix the twisted ladder
shampooed DNA I’ve learned in biology
that that was Watson and Crick figuring
that out one of the two of the most
famous scientists we’ve seen but it
wasn’t Watson and Crick is one of their
colleagues rosalind Franklin a Jewish
woman working at London in the 1950s
because she was a woman people didn’t
believe her when she said she had x-ray
DNA and found a twisted ladder shape it
was only when her students took her work
without her permission took him to
Watson and Crick that Watson Crick
somehow miraculously discovered the
twisted ladder shape and without this
understanding of DNA science all around
the world one can’t function but in
today’s world Bartek for example we edit
the demon genome using bio tech and
biotech is a hundred and thirty three
billion dollar industry and the only way
that could get up and running because of
a Jewish woman where he had a sexy
university 60 years ago
things like paper those were invented by
the Chinese and the car
they weren’t invented by Henry Ford they
were invented by called Ben’s 20 years
before and but the thing was inventions
are easy to do not that easy but they’re
easier than what comes after which is
perfecting it called Ben’s might have
made the car but it was Henry Ford who
revolutionized how we do industry today
he created mass production he
popularized the car and paper the
Chinese may have invented it but the
Islamic empire took it diffused it and
the European they made it better and
this is what democracy is about using a
new set of ideas and then new new
perspectives in order to make the world
a better place
thank you
[Applause]
I’m here to talk about competition
through diversity but before I do that I
want to talk about little me and I
wanted to be the best
so in all entry school we had the same
30 kids in every year we had the same 30
kids some left some state but we had to
teach her a year and that was fantastic
when it came to keeping the two friends
I had but it wasn’t very good when it
came to my effort as long as I kept days
I didn’t really try because well I’ll
renew I was worse than some people at
some things better than some people are
some things the best at Foursquare the
world has seen but other than that I
didn’t need to try that much but that
all changed in middle school when I go
to multimethods a radical culture change
because there are 200 different students
a day because of the six periods it’s
six different teachers a day and some of
those teachers and some of those
students would swap out every trimester
and instead of dealing with the same 25
30 kids year in year out I had to work
with and I got a bunch of different set
of perspective from my peers and coming
here in high school it was fantastic
because there are 2,000 some odd kids
here and I have to work with so many
people of different ages different
backgrounds different walks of life and
just the other day I was working on the
science project and we had to trace
evolution between humans and monkeys and
I didn’t get it for my life I hate
science
um I sorry guys I shouldn’t say that um
and I had my lab partner come over and
help me and he helped me trace the time
of it all which isn’t that interesting
in and of itself but my lab partner was
a junior I hadn’t been put in that
position where someone 2 years older
than me could come over and help me out
and age changes a lot Matt rotten cheese
you might have left in the fridge a
couple weeks ago wait a little longer
than it might become vintage so time and
age really matters and I mean I’m
special and fantastic and all that but
what does this have to do with the
bigger theme of diversity well there
have been studies done on diversity and
affirmative action things like that in
Forbes and Yale I want to talk about
this
by Harvard Business Review where they
took educated people and they put them
in simulated markets and they had
divided the participants up into groups
ethnically diverse in ethnically
homogeneous and they told them to try
and figure out the price of the stocks 1
year 2 year 3 years down the line and
what they found was that the ethnically
diverse groups were 58 percent more
likely to price the stocks accurately
than that in the ethnically homogeneous
groups now what the study authors
hypothesize was that the ethnically
homogeneous groups they had the same
methods of doing things they had the
same ideas so the ghazal solution faster
they didn’t have to fight as much to get
their way that was fantastic
but they also had the same problems with
their logic same flaws and no one was
there to help point that out ethnically
diverse groups they had conflicting
ideas conflicting methods and that
helped them overcome each other’s flaws
and biases and they could improve upon
their ideas and that is an outright
competition in which everyone’s trying
to gouge each other’s eyes out it was
more implicit that people trying to be
better they were trying to compete with
themselves to be better and we don’t
only see diversity helping people be
better in studies we also see in the
real world for example the double here
the double helix the twisted ladder
shampooed DNA I’ve learned in biology
that that was Watson and Crick figuring
that out one of the two of the most
famous scientists we’ve seen but it
wasn’t Watson and Crick is one of their
colleagues rosalind Franklin a Jewish
woman working at London in the 1950s
because she was a woman people didn’t
believe her when she said she had x-ray
DNA and found a twisted ladder shape it
was only when her students took her work
without her permission took him to
Watson and Crick that Watson Crick
somehow miraculously discovered the
twisted ladder shape and without this
understanding of DNA science all around
the world one can’t function but in
today’s world Bartek for example we edit
the demon genome using bio tech and
biotech is a hundred and thirty three
billion dollar industry and the only way
that could get up and running because of
a Jewish woman where he had a sexy
university 60 years ago
things like paper those were invented by
the Chinese and the car
they weren’t invented by Henry Ford they
were invented by called Ben’s 20 years
before and but the thing was inventions
are easy to do not that easy but they’re
easier than what comes after which is
perfecting it called Ben’s might have
made the car but it was Henry Ford who
revolutionized how we do industry today
he created mass production he
popularized the car and paper the
Chinese may have invented it but the
Islamic empire took it diffused it and
the European they made it better and
this is what democracy is about using a
new set of ideas and then new new
perspectives in order to make the world
a better place
thank you
[Applause]
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