@SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange
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2026-07-06 15:17 UTC
@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.
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@rrb@infosec.exchange 2026-07-06 16:02
@SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange @spaf@mstdn.social I agree totally. But, it seems that a plurality of the US population does not seem willing to accept the idea of objective reality. Kind of like, the evidence for vaccine effectiveness is well established. And, yet...
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@spaf@mstdn.social 2026-07-06 16:30
@SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange @rrb@infosec.exchange There are many things in the proposed rule-making that are awful, but I picked only one for the post.