Diverse problem solvers can beat the individually best. On hard problems, a team of capable people who approach the problem in different ways can outperform a team picked only for individual ability, because their different methods search different parts of the problem.

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  Hong and Page formally identified conditions under which cognitively diverse problem solvers can outperform groups selected only for individual ability.

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  Scott Page, in his book, The Difference, even argues that in many cases, diversity trumps ability.

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