Both The New York Times and Bloomberg have dropped plans to report about a study that found diversity, equity, and inclusion does not reduce bias in participants. Laurie Higgins of Breakthrough Ideas says the results were predictable.
"They also discovered that those people who had gone through DEI training were more likely to adopt authoritarian practices, punitive practices against people in these scenarios that were created and presented to them," she notes.
She says outlets like Bloomberg and The New York Times bury information that upsets them because "they're not about journalism."
"They're not about saying, 'Here's the stories that are happening out here in the culture' and just reporting on it; they are taking a side on the issue," Higgins asserts.
The study, "Instructing Animosity: How DEI pedagogy produces the hostile attribution bias," came from the Rutgers University Perception Lab and the Network Contagion Research Institute, which found that found that "instead of reducing bias," these trainings "engendered a hostile attribution bias."
According to The College Fix, diversity, equity, and inclusion programs are facing increased scrutiny in higher education, and some states have moved to ban DEI offices and hiring pledges at public colleges and universities.
