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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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