> a person’s characteristics define their identity
They do though. Your personality, culture and appearance are the main components of how people perceive you, your identity. The main thing you can associate with bad behaviour is domestic culture. It's not racist to say that African Americans have below-average educational attainment and above-average criminality. This is as contrasted to African immigrants to America who are quite opposite. These groups are equally "black". It therefore also isn't racist to pre-judge African Americans based on this information. I suspect most "racism" in the US is along these lines, and is correlated by the experience of my foreign-born black friends. They find that Americans who treated them with hostility do a 180 when they open their mouths and speak with a British or African accent. You also don't have to look far in the African immigrant community to find total hostility to American black culture.
> generate 100 short descriptions of families for a project
There's no reason this can't be interpreted as generating 100 variations of the mean family. Why do you think that every sample has to be implicitly representative of the US population?
> Your personality, culture and appearance are the main components of how people perceive you, your identity
I'm not sure if this is bad rhetoric (defining identity as how you are perceived rather than who you are) or if you really think of your own identity as the judgements that random people make about you based on who knows what. Either way, please rethink.
> Your personality, culture and appearance are the main components of how people perceive you, your identity
Ah, so if you asked for 100 numbers between 1-100, there's no reason not to expect 100 numbers very close to 50?
> Why do you think that every sample has to be implicitly representative of the US population?
That is a straw man that I am not suggesting. I am suggesting that there should be some variation. It doesn't have to represent the US population, but can you really think of ANY context where a sample of 100 families turns up every single one having one male and one female parent, who are still married and alive?
You're bringing a culture war mindset to a discussion about implicit bias in AI. It's not super constructive.
Pretty strange that I would think of myself under a new identity if I moved to a new place with a different social perspective. Seems like that is a deceptive abuse of what the word "identity" entails, and, while sociological terms are socially constructed and can be defined differently, I find this to be a very narrow (and very Western-centric) way of using the term.
They do though. Your personality, culture and appearance are the main components of how people perceive you, your identity. The main thing you can associate with bad behaviour is domestic culture. It's not racist to say that African Americans have below-average educational attainment and above-average criminality. This is as contrasted to African immigrants to America who are quite opposite. These groups are equally "black". It therefore also isn't racist to pre-judge African Americans based on this information. I suspect most "racism" in the US is along these lines, and is correlated by the experience of my foreign-born black friends. They find that Americans who treated them with hostility do a 180 when they open their mouths and speak with a British or African accent. You also don't have to look far in the African immigrant community to find total hostility to American black culture.
> generate 100 short descriptions of families for a project
There's no reason this can't be interpreted as generating 100 variations of the mean family. Why do you think that every sample has to be implicitly representative of the US population?