also there are researchers on the team
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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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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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agreed! One such data scientist is
@elenatej who worked on this https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/beginning-with-ourselves-48c5ed46a703#.7pl580tvi …1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @PaulLitvak
Look, any competent social scientists would have told you on DAY ONE on the discrimination problem was inevitable on AirBnB.
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It's been discussed for years among social science folks. So why does it take so many years to get anything going? I'm glad+
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..there's finally some attention but unless root causes of failure is accounted for, you won't empower those who can help solve+
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..this. SV has been failing basic, can-foresee-from-a-mile stuff. Some of it is hard. But tripping over easiest stuff so far.
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