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2026-07-06 14:59 UTC
@SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange @spaf@mstdn.social I guess if your world view is that bias does not exist and is only used to disadvantage men and white people, destroying math is a small price to pay.
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@SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange 2026-07-06 15:17
@rrb@infosec.exchange @spaf@mstdn.social That, too, of course, but it's more than that. Consider https://www.science.org/content/article/africans-carry-surprising-amount-neanderthal-dna and https://www.johnhawks.net/p/a-shorter-sharper-out-of-africa-story — if you only look at white European DNA, you'll get a very bad understanding of human evolution. There are various genetically-linked diseases that are more concentrated in some specific populations, e.g., Tay-Sachs in Ashkenazi Jews. If you don't ensure that your sample set is broadly representative—among other things, that means statistically unbiased—you'll get bad answers.