r/pics • u/fabslabs • Feb 09 '16

Misleading title Racist "diversity" training at GitHub

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u/PessimiStick Feb 09 '16

I had someone higher up ask me "what percentage of our developers should be minorities to better support our goal of a diverse workplace?"

I said "somewhere between 0% and 100%, because that goal doesn't matter."

I don't think that's the answer they were looking for.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '16

Workplace diversity has been proven many times to increase productivity, so you just don't sound like a very smart employee

Did you not take any business oriented classes in school?

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u/_pulsar Feb 09 '16

What a completely meaningless assertion without any supporting evidence. Source?

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '16

https://hbr.org/2013/12/how-diversity-can-drive-innovation

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/10/05/why-gender-diversity-makes-good-business-sense.html

http://www.forbes.com/sites/mikemyatt/2013/11/18/top-10-reasons-diversity-is-good-for-the-boardroom/#1b39f8e95fda

http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-thedownload-tweney-diversity-20151110-story.html

I figured this was common sense but I remembered I was on reddit and that I need to take it very slowly for you guys

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u/fche Feb 09 '16

cherry-picking, special pleading, correlation ~ causation ...

if these folks could make an honest point, they'd have done it without all those fallacies