Your scenarios implicitly assume that anyone whose expected intelligence is bellow median will get treated as dumb and that this is somehow much much worse then what happens to people whose expected is exactly median. Furthermore, even under this assumption you will find that your example falls apart if there is any way besides race to obtain information correlated with intelligence.
Your scenarios implicitly assume that anyone whose expected intelligence is bellow median will get treated as dumb
Well, actually, I thought that I made this assumption generously explicit. Evidently, you had implicit assumptions behind your claim that taking correlates into account would always lead to fewer false positives. What were these additional assumptions?
and that this is somehow much much worse then what happens to people whose expected is exactly median.
I did not make any assumption quantifying how much worse it is. It need only be mar...
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