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Re:Unable to Post Bail? You Will Pay for That for Many Years by philwelch on Monday March 04, 2019 @05:18PM (#19306155)
An algorithm can be racially biased, or have biases that significantly correlate with race, without actually having a "race" variable.
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Re:Unable to Post Bail? You Will Pay for That for Many Years by int_19h on Monday March 04, 2019 @06:11PM (#19306594)
I think what he's suggesting is feeding the input data that differs only on that variable, and if the algorithm produces differing output, then it is by definition racist (and then you send the authors back to the drawing board to figure out why).
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Re:Unable to Post Bail? You Will Pay for That for Many Years by philwelch on Monday March 04, 2019 @09:20PM (#19307590)
That's fair.
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