UK police train machine-learning model using Experian data that stereotypes people based on garden size, first names, and postal codes

Absolutely. This is junk science decades in the making.

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I, to, am reasssured by the fact that $OBJECTOFDANGEROUSPOWERANDDUBIOUSACCURACY has been in use by $RESPECTABLEAUTHORITY for $APPEALTOTRADITION years; and also support the deployment of this wholly proportionate and well-reasoned technique to combat $VILLAIN’s depradations against $SYMPATHETICVICTIM rather than resorting to brutal, unscientific $STRAWMAN tactics; which are the only alternative in today’s binary reality.

Stay loyal, citizen!

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Thanks for your data loyal citizen. If not not for the Ill thought out reply.

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Not least the freely available land registry

That’s true to a point. But then you get things like council estates built to the old Parker Morris standards, where the houses are often considerably roomier than modern new builds in “nicer” areas.

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Class and income don’t necessary correlate in the UK - You’d have to know (at least) what they call each of the days meals to pin point that.

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For those on the western side of the pond, garden generally translates to ‘side-yard’.

Quite.


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