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Or Sherpa people carrying luggage up Mt Everest... There's a difference between acknowledging some correlations, and using them as statistical tools in the job
by gurkendoktor 7y ago
Or Sherpa people carrying luggage up Mt Everest...
There's a difference between acknowledging some correlations, and using them as statistical tools in the job market. The latter is thankfully illegal or at least frowned upon.
- DocTomoe 7y agoWhen they built New York's skyscrapers, they hired predominantly people from the Mohawk tribe to do riveting a three hundred feet above ground because they lacked fear of heights. At what point does a correlation become useful as a statistical tool?
- gurkendoktor 7y agoEvery proven correlation is immediately useful as a statistical tool! But we also don't jail people when there's an 80% chance they're guilty. Not everything is about efficiency.