> Now, a new paper raises questions about McKinsey’s methodology and suggests that its advertised findings may have gotten the causation backward: financial suc

> Now, a new paper raises questions about McKinsey’s methodology and suggests that its advertised findings may have gotten the causation backward: financial success may lead corporations to embrace diversity efforts, rather than the other way around. Completely unsurprising. > Since McKinsey refused to turn over its numbers, Green and Hand had to reverse-engineer the firm’s 2015, 2018, and 2020 datasets. So it's still not completely settled who is right. But the fact McKinsey wouldn't turn over their dataset is suspicious. When one researcher works in the open and another does not, conflicting results are likely to favor the open researcher.