Jesse Singal: Diversity training may be doing more harm than good

In December a professor of psychology named Betsy Levy Paluck wrote an opinion piece for the Washington Post titled “Does diversity training work? We don’t know — and here is why.” The gist of what she wrote is that despite massive corporate and academic investment in DEI training over the past couple years ($3.4 billion in 2020 alone) there are very few studies that show any of this training works as intended. In fact, there’s some evidence that DEI training is more likely to create resentment and backlash than peace and harmony.Read More