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I don't have many followers so please R/T. I'm looking for MSc/PhD-level courses on the history and ethics of statistics - any suggestions?
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Cool. So I think a strong example is the history of scientific racism and how data can be used to push extreme ideologies. 1960s AID and war on crack used bad data to push homophobic and racist ideas. More recent examples — timnuts stochastic parrots is almost a must read now
Data is not a true representation of the world. There are confounders, flaws in data collection methods, flaws in models and even analysts have internalise biased. My with work in healthcare data really drove home the real world implications (and deaths) of bias.
