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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021

The diversity bonus in pooling local knowledge about complex problems.

Payam Aminpour, Steven A Gray, Alison Singer, Steven B Scyphers, Antonie J Jetter, Rebecca Jordan, Robert Murphy, Jonathan H Grabowski

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. A meta-model of low back pain to examine collective expert knowledge of treatment effects and their mechanisms.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2026
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  2. The co-occurrence of ingroup and outgroup prosociality across 121 societies.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  11. The diversity bonus in pooling local knowledge about complex problems.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Payam AminpourDepartment of Community Sustainability, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824; aminpour@msu.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-4419-3433
Steven A GrayDepartment of Community Sustainability, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824.
Alison SingerDepartment of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011.
Steven B ScyphersDepartment of Marine and Environmental Sciences, Coastal Sustainability Institute, Northeastern University, Nahant, MA 01908.
Antonie J JetterDepartment of Engineering and Technology Management, Portland State University, Portland, OR 97201.
Rebecca JordanDepartment of Community Sustainability, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824.
Robert MurphyFisheries, Aquatic Science, and Technology Laboratory, Alaska Pacific University, Anchorage, AK 99508.
Jonathan H GrabowskiDepartment of Marine and Environmental Sciences, Coastal Sustainability Institute, Northeastern University, Nahant, MA 01908.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recently, theoreticians have hypothesized that diverse groups, as opposed to groups that are homogeneous, may have relative merits [S. E. Page,

Indexed as

BiodiversityKnowledgeModels, TheoreticalFuzzy LogicMonte Carlo Methodcollective intelligencediversitylocal knowledgesocial-ecological systemssustainability

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PMID33495329
PMCPMC7865181

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