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It becomes a problem when it's used for profiling, such as "Don't hire that person, there's a 65% chance they'll be an alcoholic" or "send a drone to kill that
by imgabe 10y ago
It becomes a problem when it's used for profiling, such as "Don't hire that person, there's a 65% chance they'll be an alcoholic" or "send a drone to kill that person, there's an 80% chance they're a terrorist"
- sbov 10y agoI agree that it's a problem, but your distinction still seems generally pointless. If you have a company policy to not hire alcoholics and you reject 1,000 people based upon this metric then 65% would have been an alcoholic.
- imgabe 10y agoIt is a problem for the 350 non-alcoholics who are unable to get a job because the hiring manager doesn't understand statistics.