Teaching yourself about structural racism will improve your machine learning.

Journal: Biostatistics (Oxford, England)
Published Date: Apr 1, 2020

Abstract

In this commentary, we put forth the following argument: Anyone conducting machine learning in a health-related domain should educate themselves about structural racism. We argue that structural racism is a critical body of knowledge needed for generalizability in almost all domains of health research.

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  • Whitney R Robinson
    Department of Epidemiology, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB #7345 McGavran-Greenberg, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7435, USA.
  • Audrey Renson
    Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 135 Dauer Dr., Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
  • Ashley I Naimi

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