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> I suspect that we would see that we need as many categories as there are children to get anything predictive. Making a category to predict human behavior gen
by jabgrabdthrow 8y ago
> I suspect that we would see that we need as many categories as there are children to get anything predictive.
Making a category to predict human behavior generally hurts those who are “miscategorized” much more than it helps those who are accurately categorized (there aren’t really “positive stereotypes” that jump into active-decision processes like with negative stereotypes).
Therefore, we should not try to predict behavior by making even fuzzy-categories other than one-child-per-category, since this may literally hurt children, especially systemically underprivileged and underrepresented children.
It’s important to control your own decision factors against your local collection of “known non-causations”!