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Re:To study possibly racist algorithms, professors have to s... by maxerickson on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @01:17PM (#12003078)
danso linked a different article than the one you discuss. The article they link discusses the analysis in greater detail, rather than telling stories.

(which I'm not trying to weigh in on the quality of the main article, just pointing out that they did publish a discussion of their statistics. I can understand the editorial decision to break it into a separate article.)

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Re:To study possibly racist algorithms, professors have to s... by yummyfajitas on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @01:20PM (#12003095)
It's the same underlying analysis. Their github repo contains the same script I linked to:

https://github.com/propublica/compas-analysis

https://github.com/propublica/compas-analysis/blob/master/Co...

It even contains the same weasel words "almost statistically significant" for one analysis.

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Re:To study possibly racist algorithms, professors have to s... by maxerickson on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @01:23PM (#12003112)
Yes, the statistical discussion is linked from the main article in a couple different places.
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