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  • That’s the ticket, IMO. I start off assuming they know, then pause to ask “are you familiar with x concept?”

    If they say yes and they really mean no, there’s really not a lot I can do. But it seems to make people feel at ease when talking to me - I don’t get called out for over explaining or infantalizing people this way.





  • Yes - this photo is pointing out that it’s not the responsibility of that black man to be nice to you and drive you out of racism.

    Would it help? Probably. But it’s not that person’s responsibility to prevent you from being radicalized. It’s on you and on us as a collective.

    You don’t feel like you have to be nice or every white person that person runs into will always be seen as shitty - our non-white friends shouldn’t have to bear that responsibility either.




  • In statistics, everything is based off probability / likelihood - even binary yes or no decisions. For example, you might say “this predictive algorithm must be at least 95% statistically confident of an answer, else you default to unknown or another safe answer”.

    What this likely means is only 26% of the answers were confident enough to say “yes” (because falsely accusing somebody of cheating is much worse than giving the benefit of the doubt) and were correct.

    There is likely a large portion of answers which could have been predicted correctly if the company was willing to chance more false positives (potentially getting studings mistakenly expelled).