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I'm not sure its that slim, they have users across virtually all demographics (or visually indistiguishable from all demographics) who are capable of (documente
by yabadabadoes 7y ago
I'm not sure its that slim, they have users across virtually all demographics (or visually indistiguishable from all demographics) who are capable of (documented) consent and benefit from their products. I don't think you need a bonafide off-the-grid person to be able to correct for off the grid demographics.
- deogeo 7y agoHeadline: Google shuns homeless minorities, claims they are too mentally deficient to be "capable of consent"
- yabadabadoes 7y agoThey interact with a sizeable portion of those communities as they interact with everyone. I would be pissed if they came to me offline and asked for my consent to fill in their data gaps on the presumption that I look too old/stupid to be one of their users capable of engaging online and accepting the ToS. I would also be pissed if they assumed some other group that fits existing prejudices of contractors was a better aproximation instead of by any form of normal sampling. It is simply a false dichotomy that their data samples are either white college kids or whoever they seek offline as the presumed opposite. It is more work to get a reasonable dataset instead of a bad one and one or two patches. I think they can afford that work using their normal portal in a way that isn't particularly controvesial aside from the public debates that should occur in general.