title: Group membership: Who gets to decide?
abstract: In this commentary, I focus on several problems that the authors' understanding of group identity raises: the legality of avoiding background diversity, the problem of effectively unshareable knowledge, the practical quality of some outcomes arrived at by groups with homogeneous backgrounds, and moral issues about fairness. I note also that much recent research challenges the view that background diversity is more likely to be a detriment than a benefit.
authors.affiliation: Somerville College,Woodstock Road,Oxford OX2 6HD,United Kingdom.ajjacobson@uh.edu.
authors.forename: Anne Jaap
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Jacobson
mesh_terms: D003657:Decision Making; D006126:Group Processes; D006801:Humans