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Sun, 14 Mar 2021 08:05 UTC Social justice activists have been arguing for some time that scientific societies and institutions need to address systemic sexism and racism in STEM disciplines. However, their rationale is often anything but scientific. For example, whenever percentages in faculty positions, test scores, or grant recipients in various disciplines do not match percentages of national average populations, racism or sexism is generally said to be the cause. This is in spite of the fact that no explicit examples of racism or sexism generally accompany the statistics. Correlation, after all, is not causation. Without some underlying mechanism or independent evidence to explain a correlation of observed outcomes with population statistics, inferring racism or sexism in academia as the cause is inappropriate. ....
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To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The memo, dated March 2, 2021, was published by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and “provides detailed instructions for agencies to ensure the complete rollback of agency actions that were taken pursuant to E.O. 13950. Directed at federal agencies who took action to implement the rescinded Executive Order based on previous OMB guidance, the memo states “agencies must take appropriate actions to ensure the complete reversal of agency action implementing the now-rescinded OMB policy memoranda. This includes removal of authorization for agencies to include language referencing the Executive Order in contracts and the treatment of contracts which may already include reference to the Order. ....