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Wow this really hits me -- racism is a bad choice function (in the stats/ML sense). The landlord doesn't want "smelly" people, and their experience is "If SMELL
by tomrod 4y ago
Wow this really hits me -- racism is a bad choice function (in the stats/ML sense). The landlord doesn't want "smelly" people, and their experience is "If SMELLY then INDIAN." But that's going to have a huge false positive rate. And SMELLY is not an attribute of INDIAN, so the false negative rate is also going to be huge.
JFC, that's awful and I'm sorry that happened to you.
- lotsofpulp 4y agoI think it is more “If Indian, then x% likelier than average to cause $y in expenses due to odor issues”. And of course, they would not have to make this exclusive to Indians.