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Alice: We need to have more DIE.
Bob:Why?
Alice: It's because it is wonderful for company performance! Diverse companies do so much better financially?
Bob: This looks like confusing correlation with causation and maybe also we need some kind of confounder analysis?
Alice: Well, we need to put some women in our coprorate board and surely the results would show it!
Bob: OK, we did that and there is no significant relationship between women on board and performance.
Alice: Surely that's because women were always marginalized. This is what always happens.
Bob: So, how many women we need on the board to see some performance results that were promised?
Alice: Oh, come on, enough with that. Who cares about the financial performance anyway? It improves equality and team satisfaction (under certain circumstances)!
Bob: Why "equality" is even a goal - is it a communist cooperative? If I work better than Steve over there, why should we have equal outcomes? What "under certain circumstances" means - do we have the same circumstances here? And I heard people who are unhappy with DIE may have trouble staying employed in some places - would it confound the results on satisfaction with DIE?
Alice: Completely unrelated, you now have an appointment with HR tomorrow at 9am. They want to send you to a new exciting training "Avoiding offensive microagressions at the workplace". I'm sure it would be so much fun!
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