Racial Diversity In College Students

Effects of Racial Diversity on Complex Thinking in College Students by Anthony Lising Antonio, Mitchell J. Chang, Kenji Hakuta, David A. Kenny, Shana Levin, and Jeffrey F. Milem go in depth with their research in order to find out if there is a correlation between the opinion and thoughts of minorities and how it can influence others. The experiment that I decided to create in order to understand if racial diversity affects the complexity of our thinking is similar to Antonio, Chang, Hakuta, Kenny, Levin, and Milen’s experiment. We both decided to use college students, although the way everything was set up different, the base guild lines are similar. Researchers already understood that majority of the time, heterogeneity yield better problem solving
As for the rest of groups, a total of sixty participants only had the collaborator agreed with only 1 participant, for the remaining sixty-six, the collaborator agreed with two or more college students (Antonio, Chang, Hakuta, Kenny, Levin, Milen). After the first discussion, college students were asked to write another short essay explaining their opinion on a different topic. The purpose of this essay was in order to understand the influence of the collaborators. Experimenters wanted to understand if college students felt like they could see the situation from a different perspective after having the open discussion. Participants were then asked to fill out a questionnaire that indicated how influential each person was in the group. The purpose of this was to understand how having others around you can influence and change your perspective. Overall, results showed that having a black collaborator lead to college students experiencing a changing of opinion and viewing the situation in multiple different