{"id":1858677,"date":"2023-02-24T07:49:39","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T12:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1858677"},"modified":"2023-02-24T07:50:39","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T12:50:39","slug":"new-york-times-uses-groupthink-not-evidence-to-claim-dei-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-times-uses-groupthink-not-evidence-to-claim-dei-works\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times Uses Groupthink, Not Evidence, To Claim \u2018DEI\u2019 Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-york-times-uses-groupthink-not-evidence-to-claim-dei-works%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1858677&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>The Supreme Court seems poised to end decades of racist affirmative-action policies, according to The New York Times. &#8220;The Morning&#8221; newsletter last week <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/nKNJ7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Suggestions<\/a> This social engineering policy is said to lead to better outcomes. &#8220;research shows that students learn more in diverse groups and employees are more productive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that the very <a href=\"https:\/\/chicagounbound.uchicago.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=14254&#038;context=journal_articles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Research<\/a> The Times link admits that there is virtually no evidence to support the claim. &#8220;diversity, equity, and inclusion&#8221; (DEI) programming \u2014 which treats individuals based on their skin color \u2014 taking over campuses and companies across the nation. Instead, the authors of the cited piece 2022 are &#8220;Assessing Affirmative Action&#8217;s Diversity Rationale,&#8221; Recognize that DEI skeptics like Randall Kennedy, Harvard Law School Professor, are &#8220;correct that the existing empirical literature on diversity in education is lacking,&#8221; Even better! <em>Repetition<\/em> Just a few lines later, you will see that &#8220;the empirical evidence on the effects of diversity has remained lacking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 2022 research paper authors admit:<\/p>\n<p>Many scholars and jurists have questioned the empirical basis of affirmative action. In 2014, Professor Peter H. Schuck of Yale Law School contended, \u2018[T]The assumptions that underlie the diversity argument for affirmative actions based on race are both empirically tenuous, and theoretically unprovable. \u2026. Two years later, noted economist Thomas Sowell voiced a particularly acerbic version of this skepticism: \u2018Nothing so epitomizes the politically correct gullibility of our times as the magic word \u2018diversity.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The Times supports the claim that affirmative action policies that are discriminatory racially actually improve student learning and employee performance. By latching on to the study authors&#8217; own attempt \u2014 in spite of the barren empirical landscape those very same study authors themselves admit \u2014 to shoehorn this idea through. The researchers agree. &#8220;This article aims to offer empirical evidence of the effects of diversity in higher education&#8221; \u2014 an objective they manage to convince themselves they have achieved through an extraordinary demonstration of groupthink.<\/p>\n<p> Groupthink among Researchers <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how researchers proved their point in their Times-worthy research. Law reviews (i.e. Journals cite each other&#8217;s research. It turns out that journals that have adopted policies to &#8220;diversify&#8221; Their peers cite them more often in the aftermath than those who have not.<\/p>\n<p>The study&#8217;s authors are now in awe &#8220;We thus view these results as empirically supporting the much-derided diversity rationale \u2014 support that could prove critical as affirmative action confronts numerous threats.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, law reviews are not without their flaws, as these researchers have admitted. &#8220;excellent work&#8221; Can be &#8220;lowly cited&#8221; While &#8220;execrable work is highly cited.&#8221; The Times 1619 Project provides a primer <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/01\/31\/hulus-1619-project-docuseries-peddles-false-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">An analogy<\/a>.) This basically boils down to asking. &#8220;How much does this journal&#8217;s output conform to the prevailing tastes of other (increasingly politically like-minded) journals?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To prove the absurdity of the entire approach, the Times will cite the study to increase its own credibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times runs interference for the &#8216;diversity, equity, and inclusion&#8217; narrative by pushing shoddy evidence of its benefits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1744,"featured_media":1858680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[4893,16574,4913,17210,4126,3859],"class_list":["post-1858677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-claim","tag-dei","tag-evidence","tag-groupthink","tag-times","tag-york"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1744"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1858677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1858680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1858677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1858677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1858677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}