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Dr. Mansa Keita
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43% of progressives and 25% of conservatives say the other side has a fundamentally evil moral foundation.These poll results really surprised and saddened me and each for different reasons. I
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Dr. Joseph L. Graves, Jr. was the first Black PhD in Evolutionary Biology (1988). He's a great example of how being upset at harmful opinions and ideologies can lead one
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We need to call a moratorium on performative anti-racism... forever.https://twitter.com/jbarro/status/1356469362882990080 Seriously though, the argument doesn't even make sense. The NAACP, UNIA, NOI, SNCC, SCLC, etc are all acronyms fro
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Much of machine learning is training on category variables and then using them to make predictions about individuals.There aren't many ML algorithms trained just on single individuals.https://twitter.com/pmddomingos/status/1353096987399
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Science and scientific practice has never been objective, and that's okay.All the things we love about science are in spite of, and in some cases because of, the fallibility of
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A lot of the Twitter reactions to this demonstrate how disheartening it is what people focus on.For any flaws, the two young people in this story reacted a lot more
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Pet peeve: - Not every dataset has an average. - Even when you specify what you're looking for, it doesn't mean there must be an average. - Even when you
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Systemic racism today creates structural/institutional racism tomorrow.Structural racism - ongoing overall social disadvantage of a racialized group as a result of previous policies or social norms based on widely held
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Scientific racists are called racist because they claim "black" people as a separate biological type of humans who are inferior genetically.Whether they believe their "inferiors" deserve equal legal rights is
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I celebrate progress in genuine hope that there will be a day in my grandchildrens' future where many of my views today will be looked backed on as morally insufficient
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Old me would have disagreed with this, but it seems true. Scientists create and test models to better understand the state of things. They must then convince others in their
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A single test should never be what determines who's eligible to receive a college education.Crabs in a barrel mentality where those in power undersupply and overcharge college spots then sit
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