Blind auditions are one technique I push as an alternative to just selecting people based on their attributes. The authors just shredded one study. Given size of HN, it's survey time: what are all the good studies you know of it working, not working, etc?
Url changed from <a href="https://medium.com/@jsmp/orchestrating-false-beliefs-about-gender-discrimination-a25a48e1d02" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/@jsmp/orchestrating-false-beliefs-about-g...</a>, which points to this.
Something I'm sceptical about: the idea that introducing people that look different magically automatically leads to better performing teams. Questioning this verges on heresy in this day and age, yet there seem to be plenty of companies that are utterly lacking in (superficial) diversity, yet (rather inconveniently for diversity cheerleaders) somehow make massive profits in spite of their handicap.<p>Another one: women are paid less than men for the same work. If this were the case, companies would - because they could do an equivalent job to a man for less money - simply hire all women workforces which due to their lower wage bill would outcompete and destroy companies that employed men. Yet - again somewhat inconveniently! - the real world refuses to match the theory.
From the article:
> Unfortunately, it is not clear what else the journalists could be expected to do in this case. After all, they just quoted directly from some values in a published, peer reviewed study.<p>I feel this is a bit naive or condescending to journalists.<p>In many professions you are required to take statistics courses. After all, they are essential to reading studies.<p>And reading studies is something professionals should do.<p>I have only a cursory knowledge of statistics, but enough that if I read the paper I can pretty easily spot the issues mentioned in the article.<p>If a news article mentions a study in passing without depth, it could be forgiven. But writing a whole article on a study based solely on the summary of the researcher is lazy.<p>I think the author of the article might be acting naive with the lack of reporting standards shown by news organizations on this type of articles.<p>The reality is the study came to an unpopular conclusion. News organizations, like politicians, won't touch that stuff.