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>54% are women, and 35% are nonwhite. But when we have media depictions of doctors, I agree they tend to be white and male What's the issue? I used to watch a
by GameOfFrowns 4y ago
>54% are women, and 35% are nonwhite. But when we have media depictions of doctors, I agree they tend to be white and male
What's the issue? I used to watch a lot of medical dramas on TV and in my opinion the black rockstar MDs are way overrepresented in comparison to their real-life numbers:
'5.0%' in 2018 in the US[1] in real-life vs. '19.4%'[2] on TV
[1]https://www.aamc.org/data-reports/workforce/interactive-data/figure-18-percentage-all-active-physicians-race/ethnicity-2018 https://www.aamc.org/data-reports/workforce/interactive-data...
[2]https://www.bluetoad.com/publication/?i=671309&article_id=3748569&view=articleBrowser&ver=html5 https://www.bluetoad.com/publication/?i=671309&article_id=37...
- mlyle 4y ago> What's the issue? I used to watch a lot of medical dramas on TV and in my opinion the black rockstar MDs are way overrepresented in comparison to their real-life numbers: Well, this clearly isn't the case in the DALL-E training dataset, because "medical doctor" overwhelmingly yields white dudes-- even after OpenAI's effort at removing bias.