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 …
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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Question is reliability & fairness of data like said crime reports (not saying they're bunk, just shouldn't be accepted non-critically)
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There's plenty of room to criticize specifics. A bunch of airy just-so stories a la Malcolm Gladwell doesn't cut it, though.
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eg, the 538 article makes a half-hearted gesture at assessing the impact of false positives vs false negatives before running away.
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But that's where a serious analysis would *start*.
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TBH my argument here isn't up to my standards, I'm fighting a migraine and can't bear wading back into that article right now. Apologies.
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