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Does Diversity Training Work? Experts Respond with a Resounding ‘Kind of’

Tuesday, July 9, 2019

Most companies have some iteration of diversity training in their employee education regiment, yet few of these organizations measure the impact of said training. Anecdotal evidence suggests it can work, but there are just as many stories of it backfiring, making those who would benefit most from it more defensive and entrenched in their ideas. A group of researchers, who published their findings in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, designed an experiment to test the efficacy

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