Re:AI Recognises Race in Medical Images
by goto11 on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @12:00PM
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“Race is a social construct” does not mean that inheritable biological differences between groups people does not exist. It means that the categories we use to classify people into races are cultural. For example the "black" and "white" categories in the US.
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Re:AI Recognises Race in Medical Images
by maininformer on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @12:04PM
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Isn't that ethnicity?
Race: biological category
Ethnicity: Cultural category
Re:AI Recognises Race in Medical Images
by goto11 on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @12:10PM
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Both race and ethnicity are cultural categories. Example: Barack Obama is considered black in the US even though he has a white mother. This is a consequence of American culture, the historical "one drop" rule.