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Diversity is statistical evidence that a group (team, company, whatever) is not making the mistake of prioritizing "just like us" over quality. Similar for hav

Diversity is statistical evidence that a group (team, company, whatever) is not making the mistake of prioritizing "just like us" over quality. Similar for having too-narrow experience, and being prone to group-think, and having some nasty bigotry baggage, and weak recruiting, and ... But 99.9% of humanity doesn't understand statistics. And if offered a cheap way to virtue-signal, most large groups are happy to fake it.

sigmoid10 2y ago
Goodhart's law will always strike down any quantifiable way of forcing diversity in a place. If diversity doesn't come naturally from within an organisation, it will never work as intended and in many cases actually make the place worse than before. As soon as management makes this a goal, run.