[HN Gopher] The (Im)Possibility of Fairness
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       The (Im)Possibility of Fairness
        
       Author : Anon84
       Score  : 10 points
       Date   : 2021-03-24 18:03 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | cbnotfromthere wrote:
       | You know you're dealing with SJW zealots masquerading as
       | researchers when they base their whole paper on such wrong
       | absolutes:
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       | "Current sentencing risk assessments are racially biased and job
       | advertisements discriminate on gender"
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       | Racial bias is absolute? No degree whatsoever? And no chance that
       | "bias" may reflect general cultural differences (such as higher
       | rate of criminality)?
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       | "systems might use more directly measurable--and more problematic
       | --features such as college GPA upon graduation"
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       | Why and how could possibly college GPA be a problematic feature
       | at all?
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       | Looks like they have a problem with reality.
        
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