Academic Scholars Using Junk Science to Prop Up DEI Policies
“Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) is on the ropes these days.”
Supporters of DEI policies don’t have much of a choice on this. The DEI industry is collapsing.
Eric Kaufmann writes at Substack:
Junk Science is being used to Prop up DEI
What follows is an updated and expanded version of the short piece I published at Unherd four days ago. Whereas I had thought the authors of a paper claiming discrimination against minority scholars in academia were only guilty of burying their key findings while touting weak results, it now looks like their results are garbage: a result of sloppiness, mendacity, or both. This tells us a great deal about the knowledge production system in the social sciences, and how it systematically skews what experts consider to be the ‘truth’ and ‘settled science’.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) is on the ropes these days. This is a big problem for institutions, such as most elite universities or Science magazine, that have invested deeply in this belief system. One way to rescue the enterprise is to tout new scientific results that buttress the claim that minorities and women are discriminated against in academia. Ergo the need for affirmative action.
Now the woke popular science magazine Science is trumpeting a new academic paper in the equally woke Nature Human Behaviour as a riposte to the naysayers. ‘Racial bias can taint the academic tenure process,’ screams the headline.
The paper’s authors claim Black and Hispanic academics with the same track record are discriminated against when they come up for tenure and promotion. But their data, if anything, points to anti-White/Asian bias, propping up weak results while covering up inconvenient but powerful findings.
The authors briefly admit that disadvantaged minorities are advantaged over Whites and Asians when it comes to being promoted to full professor. But, at an earlier career stage, when moving from a relatively insecure non-tenured professorship to a secure tenured professorship, they are discriminated against. This helps explain minority underrepresentation in academia.
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“on the ropes”??
like ali in the rope-a dope
lefty is stronger than ever
This is done by a *magazine*? Gee, that’s like saying the old pennysaver-type birdcage liner throwaways left on front stoops back in the 20th century were hard-hitting journalism when they featured interviews like “Meet Stanley the New School Crossing Guard!”, or “Your New A & P Checkout Girl Tells All!” We used to call P-Hacking “Conclusions in Search of Evidence”.