Rob Henderson
Rob Henderson

@robkhenderson

3 Tweets 1 reads Feb 14, 2023
From "How The Mind Works": racial profiling is a repugnant practice “not because it is irrational (in the sense of statistically inaccurate) but because it flouts the moral principle that it is wrong to judge an individual using the statistics of a racial or ethnic group."
From "Thinking, Fast and Slow": Resistance to applying group base rates for individuals is "a laudable moral position...The costs are worth paying to achieve a better society, but denying that the costs exist...is not scientifically defensible."
From "Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil": It's wrong to use group base rates for individuals not because stereotypes are statistically or scientifically inaccurate (they tend to be true), but rather because it violates the moral concept of fairness.

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