Pretty amazing they think this is a good angle.
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That article is full of amazingly self-contradictory sentences, e.g.:pic.twitter.com/FXsIJJq9Vj
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BEING SMART ISN'T ALL THAT GREAT (by: A. Dumb)
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If the behavior leads to "drawing inappropriate conclusions," why do they call it "smart"? Is it perhaps that the conclusions drawn are actually appropriate for the individual drawing them but not for the individual writing the article?
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The Atlantic article implicitly equates stereotypes and prejudice. The Atlantic is usually excellent, but this is deeply confused and wrong.
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Sometimes, bias results in higher accuracy in stereotype judgments. Can also depend on the metrics used for accuracy. Topic is quite tricky.
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1/I'd be interested in learning about the mental processes which lead to the creation of 'bias' and generalization to begin with. If there is a "biased estimator," I presume there's been some sort of sampling and learning process which has led to it. This is uncontroversial:
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2/nobody is surprised when someone who has recently been raped at knifepoint by a man is jump around men with knives, even though the "objective" probability of such attacks when men have knives (say, in the kitchen) is quite low. In short, while the broader social stuff is
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Noticing, how does it work?
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