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Re:Cameras That Can Spot Shoplifters Even Before They Steal? by mc32 on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @11:59AM (#19739726)
I get the positive feedback loop issue. I’m saying if I’m looking at the data (which is blind a -it doesn’t classify people by ethnicity) but manually when looking at and labeling the data we find the above proportions as the effective proportions, then I think we’re okay.
Re:Cameras That Can Spot Shoplifters Even Before They Steal? by gbrown on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @12:09PM (#19739835)
> I’m saying if I’m looking at the data

My point is about the data generating mechanism - making inferences conditional on a bad selection procedure is a bad idea. It would be bad statistics, and it's bad ML. In this case, my argument is that it's also bad for society.