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Does it work on people of color? Seems like a potentially deadly oversight considering what we know about existing failures in object-detection.

• ponker 6y ago
  And what we know about drowning rates, which for black children are more than 5x as high as for white children.
  • devit 6y ago
    There is indeed a significant disparity according to https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6319a2.htm https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6319a2.htm although that study doesn't analyze what may cause it (other than differences in the prevalence of swimming training).
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  • mschuster91 6y ago
    That's not inherently linked to the children being black, it's more linked to Black people being significantly more poor, as a result have way less access to swimming pools or vacations on water bodies, and therefore drown more due to lack of training.
    • ponker 6y ago
      I didn’t say it was inherent in being black, but if you are selling a drowning prevention technology, it’s imperative that it work well for dark-skinned people. As someone with dark skin I can say that the problem of tech products (Automatic red eye reduction, “Facetune” style image tuning, Face recognition login) not working as well for us is very real.
  • dahfizz 6y ago
    I've always heard that the reason for this is that black bodies are denser than white bodies. Looking it up, it doesn't seem to be a huge difference though[1]. [1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6735823/#:~:text=Based%20on%20our%20data%2C%20the,compared%20with%201.100%20in%20Whites https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6735823/#:~:text=Based%20on%....