@danirabbit@mastodon.online We have known about the wisdom of crowds (aka diversity) for over a century. Francis Galton proved it in 1907 in his Ox Experiment about guessing the weight of an Ox at a country fair. Hundreds of people tried to guess the weight of the animal. No individual got it right. However, when Galton calculated the median (the exact middle number) of all the guesses it was almost spot on. Using answers of just straight, middle/upper class white men got us into this mess.