•  Umbrias   ( @Umbrias@beehaw.org ) 
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    3 months ago

    Except all they really did was take regional heart disease rates and threw a machine learning task at Google street view. They might as well have made a machine learning model that identities wealthy neighborhood features, not actually things which impact heart disease. This just sounds like a hammer looking for nails.

    To be more specific, they took a correlation, slapped ai on it, and found the same correlation out the other side.