Re:Tech companies are quietly defunding diversity pledges
by mnhn1 on Sunday January 22, 2023 @11:14AM
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> The causality could easily be the other way around.
Of course it could, though I've come to find this critique pretty weak when two people discuss a study that neither of them has read. You can say it about any topline conclusion about things that are correlated.
The driving factor could be something else - profitable companies could be more attractive to a diverse workforce.
Probably we oughta read the study. I was just pointing out that parent was looking for a business case for diversity in and of itself and seemed to have missed the one the article attempted to provide.
Of course it could, though I've come to find this critique pretty weak when two people discuss a study that neither of them has read. You can say it about any topline conclusion about things that are correlated.
The driving factor could be something else - profitable companies could be more attractive to a diverse workforce.
Probably we oughta read the study. I was just pointing out that parent was looking for a business case for diversity in and of itself and seemed to have missed the one the article attempted to provide.