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the field of diversity

uh? What? What is that? Define 'diversity.'

The field of study of the causes of unrepresentative populations and the strategies for mitigation of those causes.

Is that a thing? or did you just make it up? Can you link a couple .edu departments.

Does this field just care about "unrepresentative populations" of people interested in coding, or do they also care about "unrepresentative populations" of olympic sprinters, fishing boat crews, and kindergarten teachers?

https://www.google.com/search?q=diversity+studies+site%3Aedu

Can you link to one that cares about the apparently highly important matter of "unrepresentative populations" of people interested in coding, and why that is an issue of greater interest than any of the other countless "unrepresentative populations"?

The one's I looked just seemed like a mish mash of meaningless postmodern babble.

What happened to the scholarly tradition of penetrating insight and clarity?

Research fields use field-specific jargon. Why is that surprising to you? If you look at a CS department page you'll fine plenty of content that makes no sense unless you have some understanding of the field, too.

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