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Diversity in Political Opinion Leads to Better Policy

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Creating a more civil political environment is not just beneficial for our relationships in our communities. . . it also leads to better, smarter policy.

by Ravi Iyer

Both in my academic and industry work, I work a lot on crowdsourcing answers, as multiple sources of information are inevitably going to lead to better conclusions. The key to good crowdsourcing is not the volume of people, but the diversity of people in any dataset (e.g. this paper). David Blankenhorn, of the Better Angels initiative, applies this same logic to improving policy through diversity of political thought.

From the article:

“Diversity,” like so much else these days, divides us….diversity, properly understood, might be our last best hope of repairing our broken politics and depolarizing our society. Consider three factual propositions.

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