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I know that's what those are supposed to mean, but that's not how the average poster on social media seems to use it.

Like with my example of the SpaceX landing failure, it was a booster that had flown over 20 times, had flown a trajectory at the edge of its performance, the leading theory (IIRC) was/is that some components on the legs finally wore out too much. Testing these limits has been one of the side-benefits of Starlink launches on used boosters.

So, seeing a bunch of people stupidly freaking out about this being due to DEI just shows that they don't actually know what "DEI hiring" is as a complaint.

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But this in no way negates the thesis that a hiring policy based on membership of groups rather than merit alone, might mean that people are less competent and more mistakes happen.

Thankfully that “thesis” doesn’t need negating, because so far it’s been completely unsupported.

It’s a simple logic though, let me help you: if you hire someone based on attribute A, you can't know with certainty that their attribute B is sufficiently developed. You’re welcome.

That’s just clearly not true! Nobody hires on a single criteria, and evaluating one criteria does not prevent you from evaluating another.

The only way your argument holds water is if you think minorities are just not up to the job.

I think you should re-read my comment, until you understand it.

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I don't know if you're for or against the comment you're replying to with the same message and I find that delightful.

I haven't seen a single citation in this thread to support it, you're welcome to provide some here

Lol

> I know that's what those are supposed to mean, but that's not how the average poster on social media seems to use it.

This applies for every single word, average poster on social media are dumb. Toxic masculinity is similarly misused etc.

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