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by kryogen1c 2379 days ago
> 4. Conclusion "...grounding one’s work in an understanding of structural racism will improve model accuracy..."

It is not an interesting result to say models not modeling reality are less accurate; the cogent discussion is to what degree systemic racism exists IN reality. This is textbook begging the question.

> Acknowledgements: Conflict of Interest: None declared.

> Funding: Whitney R. Robinson is supported by the National Institute of Minority Health

I am not familiar with standards of conflict declaration, but this looks like a pretty clear conflict of interest to me.