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These schoools' associations are all correlations, not guarantees, though. Howard is a historically black college, which means their student body today is majo
by pclmulqdq 3y ago
These schoools' associations are all correlations, not guarantees, though.
Howard is a historically black college, which means their student body today is majority black, not 100% black.
Bryn Mawr is a womens' school and admits only women. However, gender is not always fixed going through life.
BYU is a Christian school, but also admits several non-religious people too, and people regularly become apostates to their respective religion.
- Wowfunhappy 3y ago> Bryn Mawr is a womens' school and admits only women. However, gender is not always fixed going through life. Technically true of course, but >99% of the population will identify with a single gender throughout their life. The correlation is so strong that it's not even really a correlation anymore.
- pclmulqdq 3y agoIf you're going with a probabilistic argument, I think BYU students are more likely to stick with mormonism (let alone Christianity) than Bryn Mawr students with their gender. That doesn't mean you aren't stereotyping people, though.
- Wowfunhappy 3y agoIrrespective of the AI discussion (computers don't care if you're stereotyping or not), I really don't think it's stereotyping to assume someone who went to a school which literally only admits women is probably a woman. There's a difference between assuming someone's gender because they're a cheerleader, and assuming because they won the women's cheerleading championship. I also assume that the person who drives a fire truck is a fire fighter.
- michaelt 3y agoRight, but the fact the associations are only correlations won't stop the ML model from learning them, if they're present in the training data. If the training data shows a history of bias against Howard graduates, the model will learn to replicate.