Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Engineering
Women Other
13% 14%
Native American
1%
Asian
13%
White
Latino 60%
7%
Black
5%
Men
87%
1 2 3 4 5
All white
No jury vs
APA study Results
Groupthink Mixed
Race
A study by the American The more diverse teams In engineering, like using
Diverse teams tend to avoid
psychology association showed a were more likely to use facts, it is necessary for
groupthink that would cause
group of 6 participants either facts to support their engineers to use accurate
them to work in one direction
composed of all white people or claim and catch and data and recognize
4 white people and two black correct biases that may discrepancies and biases
people a trial of a black victim have skewed the final in whatever they are
and tasked them to determine if results. working on to get the
the defendant was guilty. intended result in
whatever is being worked
on. Diverse teams achieve
this.
The United States engineering industry is
productive as possible.
CONCLUSION
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