Comment by itsoktocry
1 year ago
>"All American criminals are black"
I'm not even sure it's worth arguing, but who ever says that? Why go to a strawman?
However, looking at the data, if you see that X race commits crime (or is the victim of crime) at a rate disproportionate to their place in the population, is that racist? Or is it useful to know to work on reducing crime?
> I'm not even sure it's worth arguing, but who ever says that? Why go to a strawman?
The grandparent post called a putative ML that guessed that all criminals were black a "wise guess", I think you just missed the context in all the culture war flaming?
I didn't say "assuming all criminals are black is a wise guess." What I meant to point out was that even if black people constitute even 51% of the prison population, the model would still be making a statistically-sound guess by returning an image of a black person.
Now if you asked for 100 images of criminals, and all of them were black, that would not be statistically-sound anymore.