During the diversity event that I attended, titled A Business Case for Diversity, I learned several valuable things via concrete evidence. In essence, the seminar was about something everyone already inherently knows, diverse groups make strong groups. Most people already know that a diverse group allows more ideas and points of view to be expressed than with a group of reruns. This is precisely why the United States government, aka congress, works. We use large groups of diverse people and diverse ideals to get great outcomes. Mr. Page however was able to articulate it in a new manner and was also able to boil it down to a mathematical formula.
    Mr. Page summed the ability of a diverse group to provide outstanding results up to a simple equation. This equation relates to people attempting to find things such as the amount of M&M's in a jar, or the weight of a calf. The individual accuracy minus the group accuracy, will be within a close percentage of the correct values. This is a little hard to understand, and requires further articulation. However, to sum it up fairly quickly and nicely, it can simply be said that as you increase the diversity of a group you increase it's effectiveness. Now, you have to make a couple of assumptions.. you have to first assume that the group is smart, and you have to secondly assume that it is possible to get a credible answer to your question. Next you have to make sure that the diversity in your group is on the inside. It doesn't matter if you have a black person, a white person, a hispanic person, and a native american person in your group if they all think alike. You need your diversity to be in the thought process, in the beliefs and ideas. If you get a bunch of people with different backgrounds and psychologies, you can create a mean think tank.
     The things that Mr. Page talked about obviously were coherent with real life situations. He found a way to turn diversity into a winning thing, not a required by law thing. And isn't it true that diverse groups make finer groups. I find that in my personal experiences, not just academic and business, a diverse group is a fine one to work with. Results and output are better, the learning curve is better, and the experience tends to be better in the end.