Study shows class bias in hiring based on few seconds of speech

Re:Study shows class bias in hiring based on few seconds of ... by metiscus on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @06:39PM (#26962847)

Let's work through a hypothetical. Say that drug use is evenly distributed regardless of race across a group of people. If orange people get searched more frequently, even if every search is equally justified, then the number of orange people being prosecuted for drug infractions would be disproportionate.

Note: I am not making a statement about the propriety of this, but merely working through an example of applied statistics.

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Re:Study shows class bias in hiring based on few seconds of ... by klyrs on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @08:49PM (#26964050)

Actually, there have been quite a few studies on this and there are marginally fewer black drug users than white drug users, and roughly equal rates of drug dealing in the white and black populations

https://www.hamiltonproject.org/charts/rates_of_drug_use_and...

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Re:Study shows class bias in hiring based on few seconds of ... by selimthegrim on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @07:06PM (#26963150)

If I’m Muslim I should be OK with being profiled because some reprobates think it’s still the 7th century AD? It’s a little more complicated than “Was drugs your dealer?”

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