Re:Predictive Policing Software Is Pretty Terrible at Predic...
by tech_ken on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @03:04PM
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That’s an interesting point, I can’t say I recall what type of analysis if any was performed to address something like this. With that said, while these types of selection biases probably make it challenging to reliably estimate absolute drug usage rates, I would imagine they are less impactful on the relative rates between demos of geographical areas, which is the quantity of interest here.
A typical healthy 25 year-old does not go to the doctor, like, ever.
On the other hand the population of 25 year-old drug users will have a higher rate of interaction with the medical system.