Lots of motivational quotes in that article, and I guess it's appropriate considering the product. People often criticise scientific studies for too small a sample size, sometimes even when the effect size is large enough to get significance at small numbers (i. e. n=2 is plenty when studying "can bullets kill"). Yet they'll lap up vague business wisdom with gusto as long as it generally agrees with what they want to…
> middle-class white men from suburbia I keep wondering why people always include white. Is the idea that non-white middle class men from suburbia have superior perspectives and life experience? If we removed “white” isn’t the point still accurate?
Additionally minority groups tend to be aware of majority problems, points of views, etc; while the inverse is generally not true.
That is to say a black man generally knows the struggles of a white man, but a white man is often ignorant of a black mans.
This is because society caters to the majority, so most news, media, etc is from the perspective of the majority. LGBT folk have a pretty good understanding of what dating is like for cishet people because their friends tell them, tv tells them, the news tells them. Meanwhile most cishet folk are unaware of the unique issues of dating in the LGBT community.