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by belorn 1320 days ago
In an other comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33446363) we see how simply changing race on the application from Asian to Black/Hispanic increases a person chances of getting from 4-8% to 60+%. If there is hundreds of different minor data points, but then a single major data point called race that dominate all the other minor data point, then it doesn't matter that there is hundreds of minor data points.

How strong a bias is is relevant in case of discrimination. If race changes a person chances by over 12 times then that is a very major bias.