We're less good at discovery. This is what happens when you leave half of your team on the sidelines and you only play the other half. I have had a great privilege over my career of having a very diverse group. I don't apply litmus tests of any sort, beyond interest in stuff that I do and capacity to do that stuff.
My experience has been that accounting for the ways in which people have different lived experiences than I do makes my research program stronger. I'm not here to talk about my research, but I could quite easily point to what are, by the h-index, my most influential publications. Had I not been somebody who thought carefully about how to include people who looked and experienced things very differently than I do, those publications would never have happened. Again, I'm not here to talk about myself, but some of those papers have been influential. With a monolithic team—