New York Times ‘ determination to retract an article about results is challenged by a research institute.
Two major news outlets apparently dumped stories about a new study that concerns the effectiveness of diversity, equity, and inclusion education, according to National Review.
Investigators from Bloomberg and the New York Times worked on content about the Rutgers University study, which was published on Monday, but neither news channel made any announcements, according to the document.
The review,” Instructing Animosity: How La education produces the angry identification bias”, found that “instead of reducing bias”, these courses “engendered a hostile identification discrimination”. The Network Contagion Research Institute and Rutgers Social Perception Lab conducted the study.
As National Review accounts:
The study looked at whether the themes and materials used in La trainings promote understanding or worsen conflicts, and whether these materials facilitate hostility or hostility for oppressed groups. The research consisted of three tests — one focusing on competition, one on church, and the last on race.
The research found that participants who were given La materials were more likely to experience prejudice where there was none and were more receptive to condemn the perceived perpetrators, despite La training supporters ‘ claims that they are meant to educate people about prejudices and stop discrimination. In one study, the La elements made people more willing to believe with Hitler estimates that substituted” Jew” with” Brahmin”, the highest class in the Indian caste system.
Part of the study involved “educational texts from popular La researchers” Robin DiAngelo, a professor at the University of Washington, and Ibram Kendi, who runs the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University.
The researchers ‘ “anti-racist” works “influenced participants to ascribe bias without information” and made them more inclined to “punish perceived perpetrators”, according to the research.
DEI trainings is “engender a hostile identification bias and enhance cultural fear, discriminatory attitudes, authoritarian policing, and support for punishing behaviors in the absence of evidence for a transgression deserving punishment”, according to the study.
According to data the Network Contagion Research Institute provided to National Review, writers at Bloomberg and the New York Times immediately expressed interest in publishing about the results.
However, their tales were “inexplicably pulled at the highest newspaper rates”, an university researcher told National Review. In its five years of operation, the NCRI has not experienced this.
The document continues:
A reporter for Bloomberg agreed to write an essay about the investigation. One of the journalists stated in communications with the NCRI that the policy was” an important account” and that he was “eager” to distribute it. The same journalist more stated on November 11 that the article may be published in the upcoming weeks.
However, an editor — Nabila Ahmed, the team leader for Global Equality at Bloomberg News who “lead]s ] a global team of reporters focused on stories that elevate issues of race, gender, diversity and fairness within companies, governments and societies” — informed the NCRI on November 15 that Bloomberg would not go forward with the article.
NCRI later was told it was an “editorial decision”, according to the report
Similarly, editors at the New York Times decided against publishing an article about the study, National Review reports:
Although the reporter disclosed that he did not have “any concerns about the methodology” and that someone at the Times ‘ “data-driven reporting team” had” no problems” with the study, he stated that he had concluded the study was n’t strong enough after speaking with an editor.
An NCRI researcher reported that the article was published and ready for publication, but the New York Times insisted that the research be subject to peer review at the last minute after discussions with editorial staff, causing an unprecedented demand for our work. Without making any request, the journalist involved previously covered much more sensitive NCRI findings, such as those from our QAnon and January 6th studies. …
Our reporters frequently choose not to pursue further reporting for a variety of reasons, according to a New York Times spokesman who spoke to National Review.” We always look at potential topics for news coverage, evaluate them for newsworthiness, and do so for various reasons.” ” The Times ‘ editorial process is just that,” according to speculative claims from outside parties.
Recent College Fix reports have covered both Kendi and DiAngelo.
Earlier this fall, a complaint filed with the University of Washington alleged DiAngelo, a white critical race theorist, plagiarized minority scholars and others in her dissertation, The Fix reported.
Meanwhile, a College Fix analysis in September found Kendi’s Center for Antiracist Research appears to be inactive.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion programs are facing increased scrutiny in higher education, and some states have moved to ban DEI offices and hiring pledges at public colleges and universities.
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