Re:New Jersey’s experiment to reduce the number of people in...
by azernik on Monday November 27, 2017 @09:08AM
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That's actually a very interesting idea for a technique. But not one I've ever heard of actually being used.
Re:New Jersey’s experiment to reduce the number of people in...
by maxerickson on Monday November 27, 2017 @09:53AM
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It's not a technique, it's a natural outcome of statistical modeling.
It doesn't get used because people are innumerate and reactionary.
Re:New Jersey’s experiment to reduce the number of people in...
by azernik on Monday November 27, 2017 @12:54PM
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The technique I'm referring to is including race as a factor, and then instructing your model to disregard that factor. Not being race-blind, but being race-aware while attempting to be neutral to race.
Re:New Jersey’s experiment to reduce the number of people in...
by opportune on Monday November 27, 2017 @01:25PM
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Yeah I think this is an interesting idea but I don't actually understand how the great-grandparent comment believes that this could be done. I don't think it works in a strict Bayesian sense. You would have to go out of your way to instruct your model to operate correctively
Incautiously using race just because it reflects those existing biases would be a problem. This is what lots of humans do, overestimating the information provided by their own inferences of race. Like internet assholes who blather about how it is rational to be afraid of black men because of their higher rates of assault. Never mind that the absolute rate is still so low that there is ~0 predictive power from the race of a given individual.