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Conversely, if you insist on equal outcomes:

A. What you'll have to do will depend in how finely you divide your population. E.g. recent african immigrant vs. Slave descended are quite different demographics with different life trajectories and you'll be able to tell one from another very easily. There will be huge political fights over these categories.

B. If you do hire based on population demographics then two things will happen: You'll get a bit more inefficient workplace due to unperforming workers. But more importantly, you'll be surrounding people with a bunch of Xers (whichever the underperfoming demographics is. Hillbillies? African Americans? Republicans? Left handed folk?) who are underperforming. This will cause a strong association in their mind that X=less capable. Xism will then increase.

The influx of women to my workplace really didn't help my colleague's sexism.




This will cause a strong association in their mind that X=less capable. Xism will then increase.

You think your employer shouldn't aim to be increase the diversity of your team because that'd make you racist?


Not me personally (I keep stats and selection bias ib mind), but in general yes.




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