Diversity – A Performance Enhancer?
Science Daily reports that Dr Samuel Sommers from Tufts University has been researching race and the criminal justice system for many years. His most recent study involved participants on a mock jury to see if juried comprised of all white jurors acted differently than juries comprised of both blacks and whites. The results: “…diverse juries deliberated longer, raised more facts about the case, and conducted broader and more wide-ranging deliberations... They also made fewer factual errors in discussing evidence and when errors did occur, those errors were more likely to be corrected during the discussion."
(In the article there is also a link to the PDF to download the entire study.)