Before revision:  However, in the presence of demographic information, the odds of same-gender links to persist increase by 82.03\%, after controlling for merit-based link persistence. In essence, homophily-guided link persistence takes place when demographic cues are available. We further find that the semantic similarities between socially stimulated idea-sets increase significantly in the presence of demographic cues (P<1e-4), which is counter-productive for the purposes of divergent creativity.
After revision:  However, in the presence of demographic information, the odds of same-gender connections (but not for same-race connections), but (2) the semantic similarity of idea-sets increase significantly in the presence of demographic cues (P<1e-4), which is counter-productive for the purposes of divergent creativity.