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Evaluative diversity (also known as moral diversity) is the degree to which different decision-makers in a population exhibit preferences for different forms of evaluation. Unlike race, gender, sexual orientation, and disability, evaluative diversity does not yet enjoy legal protected status.

"Evalutive diversity" vs. "moral diversity"
The term "evaluative diversity" is attributed to a 1961 paper by P. F. Strawson. Antonio Cua referred to Strawson's concept of evaluative diversity as "the region of conflicting ideal images of man, the region of moral diversity." Evaluative diversity includes differences of moral sensibility --as an example, Richard Brandt observed that the Hopi people did not share his moral qualms about killing birds by tying them to strings and playing rough with them --yet one may prefer the term "evaluative diversity" over "moral diversity" because different philosophers disagree about which kinds of values qualify as moral.

Research
Studies comparing different kinds of diversity find that moral diversity is even more socially divisive than ethnic diversity. Other studies indicate that such value differences correlate with biological differences including genes and brain-activation patterns.