Thank you, I've been looking for a word to describe myself - turns out its "delusional". I thought we were using the comparison of societal demographics to com

Thank you, I've been looking for a word to describe myself - turns out its "delusional". I thought we were using the comparison of societal demographics to company demographics to measure how true the "equal opportunity" statement was. You know, like trying to find biases in die rolls - if 6 comes up more than 1, you might have a bias. Having looked at those numbers and found them to show bias, I delusionally thought that maybe we had looked at causes and effects, and found feedback loops like are present in so many complex systems. Get this though - in the grandeur of my delusion, I thought that studies of these feedback loops we had found: * people who see others in the same category as them doing a thing, will be more likely to do the thing themselves * people who exist in a status quo will tend to make decisions preserving the status quo * complex feedback systems sometimes need sub-optimal input to eventually converge optimally And that these hiring practices were part of a bigger attempt to use the third bullet to address the other two. But what do I know, I'm just a delusional fool who gets paid to work on complex systems. I should probably go resign. Anyone reading this - likely another person who works on complex systems - I encourage you to not apply your systems thinking to systems, you might end up delusional too!