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Well, it's a good way for management to show they did ... something.

• dgellow 7y ago
  This. I believe that's the main reason those tests exist. They are used by management as a legal/PR protection.
• jfengel 7y ago
  And that's not necessarily as bad a thing as it sounds. Racism, sexism, etc. are hard problems. You're talking about deeply embedded, pervasive messages. Of course they won't be solved by throwing a class at it. But shrugging your shoulders and saying, "Yeah, but we're not gonna do anything" becomes yet another one of those pervasive messages. So it can't, and won't, fix the immediate problem. But it at least acknowledges the problem, rather than leaving it buried. That's not to say it can't also be surrounded by cynicism, scamming, and bad faith. Those things are yet more indicators of the real underlying issues: people are willing to accept or ignore the racism, sexism, etc. that happen to other people because it's not important to them. Making the costs of it more visible doesn't reduce those costs, but it does provide a reason for people to start wanting to lower them.