'Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) is on the ropes these days.'
What follows is an updated and expanded version of the shortfour days ago. Whereas I had thought the authors of a paper claiming discrimination against minority scholars in academia were only guilty of burying their key findings while touting weak results, it now looks like their results are garbage: a result of sloppiness, mendacity, or both.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is on the ropes these days. This is a big problem for institutions, such as most elite universities ormagazine, that have invested deeply in this belief system. One way to rescue the enterprise is to tout new scientific results that buttress the claim that minorities and women are discriminated against in academia. Ergo the need for affirmative action.
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