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Measuring Diversity In a Diverse State: How Useful are Diversity Indices in Hawaii?
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Measuring Diversity In a Diverse State: How Useful are Diversity Indices in Hawaii?

We may recognize our diversity anecdotally – that we live, work, and play with people from a wide variety of backgrounds – but is it possible to capture how diverse a place is through data and numerical evidence? Diversity indices attempt to do just that, and have gained popularity in recent years. A diversity index is a score, derived from population data, that measures the number and abundance of different groups.

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