[codingrightnow]

"Students understood that the FAA hired virtually everyone who completed the program and passed the assessment."

It sounds like they couldn't hire enough people to fill vacancies. The diversity push could have been an attempt to encourage a wider range of people to consider the occupation.

[frugalmail]

It litterally has plaintiffs that weren't hired with 100% scores, and tons of experience. Not only that, sometimes they were minorities, just not the "in" minority. I believe, the second major plaintiff is a Native American.

[Manuel_D]

> The diversity push could have been an attempt to encourage a wider range of people to consider the occupation.

Except it was demonstrably of the opposite of this. The bigraphical questionnaire rejected 90% of applicants for no justifiable reason.

In practice, diversity is much easier to achieve by reducing the opportunities of the undesirable demographics. This is one such example.