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The Mathematics of the American Justice System

posted by martyb on Tuesday October 18 2016, @12:42PM   
from the does-not-add-up dept.

Kromagv0 writes:

The BBC is reporting on the Compas assessment, Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions. This tool is used by a number of agencies to assess if someone is likely to commit additional crimes and the resulting score is used in determining bail, sentencing, or determining parole. The article points out that while the questions on the assessment do not include race the resulting score may be correlated with race but this is disputed by the software's creators. The assessment scores someone on a 10 point scale but the algorithm used to determine someone's score is kept secret. Because of this defendants are unable to effectively dispute that the score is incorrect.

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Original Submission

• Re:Social Capital (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 18 2016, @06:40PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 18 2016, @06:40PM (#415789)

  > AC brings up an interesting concept I've been thinking about WRT American culture which is the idea of escape velocity.

  Wow, something insightful about sociology from VLM. An analysis of how black people can't escape poverty because they have been denied the necessary resources, especially in the form of generational wealth. A recognition that Dr King spoke the truth when he said, "It's all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is a cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps." Bravo! A hearty congratulations is in order.

  > So yeah specifically I'd say what some flaky academic SJWs think who are emphatically not part of our culture probably have nothing useful to say to the real world.

  Oh never mind... Just the same old public masturbation we've all sadly come to accept from the willfully ignorant contingent.

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