> This is what happens with loan or crime data sets, and it made plenty of noise in the news recently - but only the kind of noise in which people say it's obvi

> This is what happens with loan or crime data sets, and it made plenty of noise in the news recently - but only the kind of noise in which people say it's obviously the algorithm that's broken, because it doesn't fit the "polite fiction" they'd like to believe. The polite fiction would be that it is only the algorithm that's broken when it is actually the country that is broken.