It's unfortunate, yes, but it's not broken. Why fix it?
On 11/12/06, Phil Sandifer Snowspinner@gmail.com wrote:
On Nov 12, 2006, at 6:41 PM, David Gerard wrote:
On 12/11/06, Ryan Wetherell renardius@gmail.com wrote:
Oh, "systematic bias", that's exactly the term I was looking for.
Not quite ;-) "systematic bias" implies it's deliberate; "systemic bias" implies it isn't, and is a symptom of something about the system itself.
In other words, systemic bias is when our administrator and arbitrator pools are disproportionately white American males. Systematic bias is when I went and banned all of the black Australian women on Wikipedia last night.
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