{"id":268,"date":"2017-08-10T10:55:41","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T15:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/?p=268"},"modified":"2017-08-10T10:55:41","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T15:55:41","slug":"equality-or-diversity-choose-one-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/2017\/08\/10\/equality-or-diversity-choose-one-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Equality or diversity: choose one."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aei.org\/publication\/some-scientists-respond-to-the-controversial-google-memo\/\">Some scientists respond to the controversial Google memo \u2022 AEI | Carpe Diem Blog \u00bb AEIdeas<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>I think that almost all of the Google memo\u2019s empirical claims are scientifically accurate. Moreover, they are stated quite carefully and dispassionately. Its key claims about sex differences are especially well-supported by large volumes of research across species, cultures, and history<\/strong>.\u00a0Whoever the memo\u2019s author is, he has obviously read a fair amount about these topics. Graded fairly, his memo would get at least an A- in any masters\u2019 level psychology course.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Here, I just want to take a step back from the memo controversy, to highlight a paradox at the heart of the \u2018equality and diversity\u2019 dogma that dominates American corporate life. The memo didn\u2019t address this paradox directly, but I think it\u2019s implicit in the author\u2019s critique of Google\u2019s diversity programs. This dogma relies on two core assumptions:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<blockquote style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><p>The human sexes and races have exactly the same minds, with precisely identical distributions of traits, aptitudes, interests, and motivations; therefore, any inequalities of outcome in hiring and promotion must be due to systemic sexism and racism;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>The human sexes and races have such radically different minds, backgrounds, perspectives, and insights, that companies must increase their demographic diversity in order to be competitive; any lack of demographic diversity must be due to short-sighted management that favors groupthink.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The obvious problem is that these two core assumptions are diametrically opposed.\u00a0<\/strong>Let me explain. If different groups have minds that are precisely equivalent in every respect, then those minds are functionally interchangeable, and diversity would be irrelevant to corporate competitiveness.\u00a0On the other hand, if demographic diversity gives a company any competitive advantages, it must be because there are important sex differences and race differences in how human minds work and interact. (See Venn diagram version above.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Bottom Line:<\/strong> So, psychological interchangeability makes diversity meaningless. But psychological differences make equal outcomes impossible. <strong>Equality or diversity. You can\u2019t have both. Weirdly, the same people who advocate for equality of outcome in every aspect of corporate life, also tend to advocate for diversity in every aspect of corporate life. They don\u2019t even see the fundamentally irreconcilable assumptions behind this \u2018equality and diversity\u2019 dogma<\/strong>.\u00a0American businesses also have to face the fact that the demographic differences that make diversity useful will not lead to equality of outcome in every hire or promotion. <strong>Equality or diversity: choose one.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some scientists respond to the controversial Google memo \u2022 AEI | Carpe Diem Blog \u00bb AEIdeas \u00a0 I think that almost all of the Google memo\u2019s empirical claims are scientifically accurate. Moreover, they are stated quite carefully and dispassionately. Its key claims about sex differences are especially well-supported by large volumes of research across species, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}