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Using zip codes to implement discriminatory policies isn’t ML, but has almost certainly occurred. It’s referred to as redlining, and has been around for a while
by AmericanChopper 7y ago
Using zip codes to implement discriminatory policies isn’t ML, but has almost certainly occurred. It’s referred to as redlining, and has been around for a while. The New Deal had some pretty indefensible redlining conditions. A lot of people will say the practice continues to this day, but the modern examples are a lot more open to interpretation than some of the historical ones are.
- mieseratte 7y agoWas the New Deal redlining out-and-out discrimination or a matter of accidentally creating conditions, i.e. based on bad intelligence, that resulted in discrimination. I always understood it to be the former.
- AmericanChopper 7y agoThe level of plausible deniability regarding The New Deal is mostly a matter of opinion, but personally I think it was pretty transparent in how it intentionally discriminated. It’s the modern examples that I think are much more questionable. For example, there are more liquor stores in black neighbourhoods. Is this because: a) A conspiracy to use alcohol to suppress the black population? b) Those neighbourhoods have a greater demand for liquor stores?