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by perl4ever 2189 days ago
This seems like a plausible criticism, but it also seems like a plausible criticism of all data and derivates about human beings (and probably other things).
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It _is_ a plausible criticism of all data and why we want such large (and diverse) sets of them.

source: work with data and am not terrible at my job

Clearly you haven't seen crime or police data. It's truly, truly awful. That, and the people running analysis on it are just as bad:

https://www.chicagoreporter.com/chicago-police-arrested-more...

Garbage in crunched by garbage is still garbage out.