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[โ€“] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 31 points 7 months ago (7 children)
pub fn predict_crime(suspect: Person) -> bool {
   if suspect.race() == Race::Black {
       return true;
   } else {
       return false;
   }
}
[โ€“] Barx@hexbear.net 18 points 7 months ago

Nerds with a rudimentary understanding of undergrad stats do this all the time with extra steps by just building a simplistic model based on (racist) "crime data". Sometimes literally just a basic Bayesian model.

And they get hired by Palantir to do versions of that for $300k/year.

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