Tag: Social science

The National Science Foundation (NSF), a federal agency that funds university research, is consumed by diversity ideology. The NSF jump-started the implicit-bias industry in the 1990s by underwriting the development of the implicit association test (IAT). One problem: there are often no black or Hispanic M.D.s to evaluate for inclusion in the training grant. If a particular immigrant group in a research trial’s catchment area contains a disproportionate share of young people compared with the aging white population, that immigrant group will be less susceptible to those adult diseases. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education requires that medical schools maintain detailed diversity metrics on their efforts to interview and hire URM faculty. But identity politics is now altering the standards for scientific competence and the way future scientists are trained. Adding to medical schools’ diversity woes is the fact that the number of male URM student applicants has been declining in recent years, making it even harder to find qualified candidates. Assessing student knowledge of those facts can produce disparate results. Scientific self-esteem is now an academic goal. Needless to say, no female or underrepresented minority faces a threat at Google.