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The head of Intel blasts Congress over the science funding debacle.
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"When attendance is voluntary, diversity training is followed by an increase in managerial diversity, ... Most employers, however, force their managers and workers to go through training, and this is the least effective option in terms of increasing diver
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"I controls the spice. I controls the universe."
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The National Academy of Sciences hands out some hardware.
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I don't quite follow the logic there:
1) The goal of typical diversity programs is to insulate against lawsuits while providing employment for diversity trainers. Presumably they are cost-effective in this.
2) They are ineffective, as measured by counting heads.
3) Instead, voluntary programs emphasizing business benefits should be used.
4) Those are effective, as measured by counting heads.
So, programs that accomplish the desired result, A, are bad because they don't accomplish B. Instead, people should be told that a different program will accomplish C, not because its proponents know or care whether that's true, but because saying so does accomplish B!
It may not sound like it, but I'm largely in sympathy with Alexandra Kalev and company, certainly as compared to the alternative. But an honest discussion about these issues seems as alien to them as it is to their rivals.