We think the alphabet is neutral. It's not. Racial bias infects words and sentences. Translated: Not hewing to proper biases is bias.https://twitter.com/FiveThirtyEight/status/888778160476626944 …
I did, and I've seen the same arguments before. It's a trash heap of special pleading and castrated versions of real issues.
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Twitter's a crap medium for nuanced discussion; if you can recommend a good counterpoint to 538, going into detail, I'd appreciate it
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I'd look for good critical reviews of Weapons of Math Destruction, which this article is largely a rehash of. Don't know any offhand.
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A big chunk of the problem here is analogous to complaining that geometers won't develop a square triangle.
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Much of the underlying data is deeply unpleasant--eg, FBI Unified Crime Reports, which are extensive and easily available via the web.
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When automated analysis of a data set presents an unpalatable result, impugning analysis itself as inherently and categorically evil...
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...is both a ghastly category error, and a recipe for deepening insanity, in the sense of closing oneself off from unexpected information.
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