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“More women on corporate boards means better decisions and businesses that outperform the competition,” Atkins said This is an odd way to defend a law. If he a
by ars 4y ago
“More women on corporate boards means better decisions and businesses that outperform the competition,” Atkins said
This is an odd way to defend a law. If he actually believed this were true, why would he need to mandate it? Just let the better companies outcompete.
- epgui 4y agoThis "natural selection" argument presupposes that women are sufficiently prevalent on boards that the competitive advantage they provide is apparent and obvious to all other companies. This assumption is problematic in a context of low prevalence.
- fyrn- 4y agoArticle says 26% met the criteria already, so it's not that out there to expect to see an effect
- twelve40 4y agoThe way State Senate leader Toni Atkins stated it - direct reference by the OP - "better decisions and businesses outperform the competition" means she believes that this is a 100% fact, and the competitive advantage is apparent to everyone but the foolish judges (quote: "legalities don’t match our realities"). She doesn't seem fazed by this assumption being problematic in a context of low prevalence.
- Veen 4y agoIf they aren't sufficiently prevalent to demonstrate the advantage, then on what basis is the claim being made?
- epgui 4y agoWhen you do research, you select your sample judiciously, and you never really sample the whole population. Depending on the research question, you sometimes want to select a sampling technique that is not representative of the population.