I do wonder how far the activist researchers are willing to contort the science to avoid acknowledging that many stereotypes are in fact manifestations of stati

I do wonder how far the activist researchers are willing to contort the science to avoid acknowledging that many stereotypes are in fact manifestations of statistically valid priors. Culture predicts behavior, and ethnicity predicts culture, because of the nature of human reproduction and cultural diffusion (or lack thereof). Note that this is not an excuse to prejudge individuals, but in this case the statistics learned by our models are not necessarily lying. These activists are putting the cart before the horse, presuming that any ML model which shows socially unacceptable bias is obviously and unarguably wrong. That's just bad, backwards science.