MIT abandons use of DEI statements

Re:MIT abandons use of DEI statements by rebeccaskinner on Sunday May 05, 2024 @08:53PM (#40270085)

> The over riding DEI principle is that every profession, every organization, every role, must somehow have exactly the demographic breakdown of the society as a whole.

I’ve simply never seen this happen, although I’ve seen a lot of accusations of it. In a very large organization you might look at how your organizations demographics compare to industry demographics in different ways, but that’s always been at most an individual data point that elicits further investigation.

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Re:MIT abandons use of DEI statements by jimbokun on Sunday May 05, 2024 @11:46PM (#40270960)

I’ve lost count of the number of articles that simply cite disproportionate demographic distributions as proof of discrimination.

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Re:MIT abandons use of DEI statements by jazzyjackson on Sunday May 05, 2024 @11:42PM (#40270943)

you've contradicted yourself, that's all the parent was saying, that comparing your demographics with national demographics is used to identify the degree to which your organization needs to institute race quotas

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Re:MIT abandons use of DEI statements by Dylan16807 on Monday May 06, 2024 @01:01AM (#40271273)

> that's all the parent was saying

Nuh uh. jimbokun intensified it by a huge amount with those "every" terms and saying "must" and "exactly", describing a mandate that is very stupid and ignorant of statistics in a way that rebeccaskinner's description is not very stupid and ignorant of statistics. Also,

> race quotas

The post you're replying to says "further investigation", not "race quotas".

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