![]() ![]() This is particularly a problem because the workplace demographics are shifting rapidly, and science is not moving at the same rate. The idea that I, a white-presenting female with my fancy statistics, Ph.D. and keyboard hands, know what to measure about the average worker’s experience by relying on my handy dandy (extremely biased) peer-reviewed research is patronizing at best and bad science at worst. Estimates show the vast majority of the psychometricians working in the United States today are also WEIRD.ĭiving deeper, 87% of them are white, 37% have a master’s or doctoral degree, and the average salary is over $86,000 a year. Psychometrics, or the science of measuring human emotion, is a specialized field requiring advanced statistics skills and often a graduate degree. For example, the most popular measure of “good” leadership was created the same year that 96.4% of Fortune 500 CEOs were white men.īeyond the boardroom, the people who have the qualifications to measure employee experience have a diversity problem. In the business setting, most of what we “know” about organizational behavior comes from an even more narrow group: primarily white men. ![]() Research, in general, has a history of historically over-representing Western, educated, industrial, rich, and democratic voices (or WEIRD, for short). ![]()
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