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by travisoneill1 2832 days ago
I've heard a lot about racism in AI, but looking at the distributions of sentiment score by name, a member of any race would rationally be more worried about simply having the wrong name. Has there been any work done on that?
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This is a pretty well known study: http://www.nber.org/digest/sep03/w9873.html
I mean name within the same race. On the range of racial averages was 3, but the range of names within a race was around 10. I don't know how significant the results for individual names are, but I was very surprised by that result.