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- Let's play a game
- Have a deck of standard playing cards.
- Remove everything 10 and lower.
- You have 16 cards in your deck now. The A, K, Q, and J times 4, for each suit.
- Pick one card at random.
- How likely is that card to be a diamond?
- If you said 1 in 4, gold star for you.
- No problem. That's statistically possible.
- Do it again
- And again
- And again
- Do it 100 more times.
- How likely is it that EVERY card you pick EVERY time is ALWAYS a diamond?
- (¼ × ¼ × ¼ × ¼) ... A hundred times.
- a 1 in 150,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 chance.
- Basically impossible.
- Let's say we make a rule that, if you draw a diamond 5 times in a row, the next card can't be a diamond.
- If it just "happens to be" another diamond, put it back, and draw a different one.
- Now shuffle the deck and draw another card.
- How likely is that card to be a diamond now, after our rule change?
- Still 1 in 4. Right.
- How likely is that card to be a 7 of clubs, after our rule change?
- Correct. Zero.
- That's DEI.
- DEI does NOT mean that a bunch of unqualified 2s and 7's and Jokers and tarot cards get added into the deck.
- It doesn't mean diamonds are bad and should be removed from the deck
- It doesn't even mean you HAVE to draw spades, hearts, or clubs.
- DEI means cards of any color get an equal chance at being drawn, as long as they're high enough value.
- You know... A meritocracy.