Sorry it took so long! Here is my feedback. I put the feedback here, but I can move it over to your article if you tell me I can after you read this.

Takeway from your Point 1: I tend to veer to the wording "professional diversity". For example: I run a nonprofit and I look for different professional styles and different certifications. I look at nothing else. My clients could not care less about the person. It is always the service over the person, who best fits the qualifications and company needs. If a company's client needs an accommodation - such as they have trauma towards men, most companies have a staffing that can accomodate, but that demographic diversity was not a prerequisite for employment. To choose A over B, due to anything other than professional diversity is a textbook example federal and state discrimination if it is not clinical or a medical or practitioner exception based on client needs. A clinic supervisor will say "We need a female practitioner because the company is getting more female clients." However, if no female meets the qualifications but one is given the job based on demographic or cognitive diversity and commits a violation against the accrediting mental health association - she will be fired, the company can be legally sued by a multitude of organizations, and loss of accreditation. Employment is always based on professional diversity. If someone meets the qualifications they will help your company. In the CIA example you wrote about, the CIA hired based on the best person for the company, they can't hire someone the same day they heard the chatter, who is not qualified just to hear their thoughts and lack of experience about counterterrorism. How would you know someone is cognitively diverse in the job interview? What would some of the questions be? I am interested in that.

I don't see how perspective blindness is cured by diversity, aside from professional diversity that is. Even the military has professional diversity. They have medics, sergeants, mechanics, drivers, gunners, chemical specialists, engineers, MWD handlers, armors, etc. However, if we are talking about a funnel company, like a Facebook Marketing Team, sure, hire based on other types of diversity because everyone in the room will have a marketing degree anyways. Well no, actually, because professional diversity only allows for demographic and cognitive diversity, it doesn't demand it. Aak North Korea why I can't live there. Demographic and cognitive diversity is what I term 1st World Privilege. (I termed funnel companies as companies with a plethora of candidate options all pulled together for one single purpose, using the same software, and all can fit into one two-story building). These companies tend to have a strict employee speech rule, undermining their diversity pride. Diversity on their terms is another textbook example of discrimination. If I cannot fly my Jolly Roger in my cubicle they are not diverse, by dictionary definition, they North Korea or Nazis.

Point 2: My first point still applies to the publication's second point about wisdom. I still don't listen to the majority if the topic is Top Secret Clearance level stuff. I've had a secret clearance before and seen stuff civilians will never see. I might be the only person in the room with that information. This boils down to professional diversity. Wisdom of the Crowds? Like a large high school vs a small panel of same-race doctors in Guam? Professional diversity says a person has a voice when: 1) they have credentials, 2) they have been peer-reviewed, 3) they have tested their words under dire life circumstances, and 4) the science is global not just in 1st world countries. Professional diversity still promotes diversity of all kinds, but there is an academic and professional standard that isn't lowered for demographic diversity. Demographic diversity can be lowered to allow professional diversity - or that would be an oxymoron ha-ha!

Point 3: When I am in a clinical meeting, I only talk if I am asked a question or if I have clinica input. I choose to not voice non-licensed opinions and theories. The supervisors and clinicians should have the floor.

Point 4 in your article is my only type of diversity. You say "someone's expertise in an alien field", yup, that is professional diversity.. You say "sex", I say perfection. So, we agree on this. We both agree that this is the most beautiful type of diversity. It promotes people learning something vs ignorance. That is why my nonprofit is 1 of a kind, it is psychoneurobiological - most people get lost 4 letter in that.

You mentioned sexual reproduction in your article. Outside of forceful integration, natural selection dictates professional diversity is chosen. If professional diversity is not chosen, but race, that's not diversity. I hope people will choose a partner using wisdom, experience, and discernment.

Your Point 5: "executives, engineers," etc. - professional diversity. Professional diversity exemplifies and delivers professional feedback. Demographic diversity doesn't promise professional feedback. The words "demographic" and "professional" are not interchangeable in English grammar.

Demographic and cognitive diversity does not promise quality or standards, based on looking the terms up in the dictionary. The workplace is not a social club - unless you work for a company where the lives of people and animals are not at stake. I agree that we must champion diversity, professional diversity while promoting people to be kind and accepting to everyone. To promote the expression of diverse ideas and be able to dialogue on diverse topics and fields, as your point 5 perfectly explained.

I would like to see different Instagram "fashion bloggers" get the big deals. I guess the Fortune 500 Companies didn't get the diversity memo, they just pin it up in their lunchroom.

I stipulate this not what you expected when you first commented on my article. No worries, that is why I posted my response here. Also, I sensed that since you did not respond or clap to my other comment.

Thanks for reaching out! Thank you for your time and I look forward to more connections.