whose dumb fucking idea was it anyway to not trust ourselves to defend the idea that individuals shouldn't be treated as if group tendencies were absolutes since individual variation swamps them, so we have to pretend that group tendencies don't exist, destroying all credibility
hardly useful, you still wind up saying "as hard as we pretend bias still doesn't go away" without any idea whether you're full of shit since you're pretending group tendencies don't exist so when you look at a survey of differential outcomes all you're allowed to see is bias
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There are famous tests where they eliminated bias by making it impossible for the potentially biased selectors to get the information they'd use to bias their selection, and the differential outcomes went away.
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When this can't be replicated in the real world by just telling people not to be biased, the conclusion is kind of obvious.
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