SANITYTurns out “diversity improves performance” is a load of rubbish that is not supported by evidence despite decades of propaganda

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[–]UncleWillard56 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Of course it doesn't. In fact, I'd wager DEI policies are actually detrimental. Wasting time on courses that just say "white people bad" or that white people need to perform a laundry list of ablutions because of their race just brings more racism. Constantly pointing out our differences over what brings us together (like, we're all stuck here at work, UNITE!), wastes time and reduces productivity.

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The traditional concept is that diversity of opinions and ideas is what creates better problem solving. I'm not sure if this study actually looks at that part... But it's noteworthy that polite society has substituted in diversity of identity as the moral good to claim why companies need things like DEI. At the most charitable the argument is made that diverse identities bring in diverse ideas because the people all have different lives up until the point that they are hired for a project. In reality what tends to happen is the DEI type programs explicitly exclude diversity of opinions and ideas. They want to hire people with obscure racial, ethnic, sexual, or gender backgrounds but if you are a super "diverse" person applying for a job with a government agency & they check your social media history to find you've made some incredibly tame comments about thinking the US government should stop overthrowing every government on earth which tries to nationalize their natural resources... Then you are not getting that job. Same goes for any corporation like Google who will end up putting out an AI which refuses to show images of white people and actually creates black Nazis which is far more offensive than just showing the actual historically accurate information. Anyone who would have had diversity of opinions or ideas and who could have spotted the problem ahead of time was preselected as unhirable.

Basically I'm wondering if all of this diversity they are studying is overlooking the actual diversity which might change the data.

[–]LtGreenCo 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Makes sense. "Diverse" (in the DEI sense) people will either be unnoteworthy employees at best, or they will be disruptors at worst, trying to add their foreign and/or unorthodox background or culture to a company whose market is more than likely targeting a specific demographic of normal buyers who would rather do business with a stable and dependable company over a company that keeps trying to change its image.

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

A new, comprehensive preregistered meta-analysis found that, whether the diversity was demographic, cognitive, or occupational, its relationship with performance was near-zero.