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The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program
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And I'm showing you, with sources, that you are wrong on both your points.
It can be reliably and reproducibly measured that diversity is more profitable. It's as "always" as tylenol helps against headaches, trains for travel, google for searches, gravity for keeping you on the ground. Yes, there technically are times these don't work, but it works more often than not, and typically there's other factors when it doesn't.
And similarly, yes you might not always pick the best candidate, but applying robustly provable best practices will lead you to doing it more often.
Do you go through anything else in life in this manner? That if you can't do it perfectly, you'd rather not try? I'd wager not, as trying gets you closer to your goals, even when not meeting them immediately.