Comment on The Economist on using phrenology for hiring and lending decisions: "Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic" […] "For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing"

ViatorOmnium@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It predicts people with business school degrees getting six, seven, and eight figure salaries to blow smoke up the asses of the investor pool.

  This reminds me of a fraud risk classification model I once heard about, which ended up being an excellent income-by-postal-code classifier.

  The dark art of sociology is recognizing how poverty impacts human behaviors and then calibrating your business to profit off it.

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  • pdxfed@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Sociology is one of the few majors that Florida is trying to cut from public school programs. They apparently think it radicalizes people to educate them about the way the world works.

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