there are researchers and data scientists on the team too. It's like any product team.
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You also need social scientists who are trained in this and spend a lot of time thinking about it. Data scientists won't cut it.
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what background do you think is essential? Studying prejudice in the lab? Or is knowing the literature sufficient?
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Replying to @PaulLitvak
Stratification, inequality, culture... People who spend a lot of time learning about this; researching it, probing it.
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Replying to @zeynep
so are you thinking sociologists in particular then? :)
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Replying to @PaulLitvak
Not just but definitely part of it. Economists often aren't great at this either (skips long rant) but what you want is..
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..people trained in empirical methods and causal inference, but aren't smothered by physics-envy in their assumptions about+
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..how empirical methods work in social sciences. ("let's make a toy model; let's assume we can just expand this to reality").
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Often, Silicon Valley hires economists as the "social scientist" or someone who thinks like them methodologically; that said+
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Replying to @zeynep @PaulLitvak
+I'd invest much effort into empowering the social scientists in the team on what to look and how to measure. It's real work.
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