3 ms·
Obviously you're just dragging your feet here. He is not saying whether the discrimination itself is correct, but that if the validity of the tests is not corre
by eruditely 13y ago
Obviously you're just dragging your feet here. He is not saying whether the discrimination itself is correct, but that if the validity of the tests is not correct this can lead to incorrect discrimination here, the chance of this data ruining someones life in the wrong hands is very high.
- Dylan16807 13y agoAvoiding performing measurements because you're worried about how the results could possibly be misused is a political motivation, not a scientific one. I'm just trying to argue in favor of this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6794926 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6794926 , not about whether doing the testing is a spectacularly good idea.
- eruditely 13y agoThe primary concern is fragility, not in truth-space. Scientists have ethical responsibilities and pretending that this isn't true is probably how NSA mathematicians justify their work.