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Racial bias found in common life-saving medical device
IdahoNews.com ^
| March 1, 2021
| Andrew Donley
Posted on 03/02/2021 10:11:15 AM PST by Twotone
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posted on
03/02/2021 10:11:15 AM PST
by
Twotone
To: Twotone
Hospitals have been using these devices for many many years. Nobody discovered this error before?
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posted on
03/02/2021 10:13:22 AM PST
by
monkeyshine
(live and let live is dead)
To: monkeyshine
This has nothing to do with skin color and more to do with Type II diabetes, especially undiagnosed or poorly managed.
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posted on
03/02/2021 10:15:01 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(Break out the mustard seeds. )
To: monkeyshine
Must be designed like that. Systemically.
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posted on
03/02/2021 10:15:41 AM PST
by
rktman
(Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
To: Twotone
“someone who identifies as Black”? So it’s not about race, it’s about how you FEEL? I wonder how Talcum X and Rachael Dolezal are affected.
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posted on
03/02/2021 10:15:43 AM PST
by
GMMC0987
To: Twotone
Yes - that proves racial bias. Not because it gives different readings but because I’m 99% sure the developers were PREVENTED from pointing out that skin color would affect results because saying so - last year - was RACISS.
The device in and of itself is not racist - anymore than cameras are racist for over exposing backgrounds when photographing black people!
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posted on
03/02/2021 10:16:25 AM PST
by
Skywise
To: Twotone
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posted on
03/02/2021 10:16:29 AM PST
by
EEGator
To: monkeyshine
I thought everyone was exactly the same except for different paint jobs. You mean there are actually physical differences? Maybe there aren't really any races but different species instead.
To: monkeyshine
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posted on
03/02/2021 10:17:34 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(Break out the mustard seeds. )
To: Twotone
I guess this falls under the maxim, if you look for something hard enough, you’ll find it.
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posted on
03/02/2021 10:19:12 AM PST
by
NohSpinZone
(First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
To: Twotone
Marsha Marsha Marsha
Racist Racist Racist
🥱
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posted on
03/02/2021 10:19:57 AM PST
by
Bob434
To: mewzilla
You’d think by now that race would be a factor in many health chart range standards.
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posted on
03/02/2021 10:21:46 AM PST
by
cnsmom
To: Twotone
These crazies will eventually call God a racist for making blacks ‘black’.
How do you deal with stupidity & insanity like this?
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posted on
03/02/2021 10:23:59 AM PST
by
Roman_War_Criminal
(Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
To: mewzilla
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posted on
03/02/2021 10:24:55 AM PST
by
monkeyshine
(live and let live is dead)
To: Twotone
That little plastic clothespin they put on your finger?
That’s racist?
Note to self: Be sure to wash hands after playing with coal before going to doctor.
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posted on
03/02/2021 10:25:14 AM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
To: Twotone
someone who identifies as This phrase is a great warning of the arrival of BS. The only thing that's a greater warning is a lifted tail and a big cow fart.
But more seriously, this is a problem. My company was using an infrared proximity sensor behind glass as a button on a sealed piece of equipment. We had to be careful to have it sensitive enough to detect black people's fingers.
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posted on
03/02/2021 10:25:29 AM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(The greatest threat to world freedom is the Chinese Communist Party and Joe Biden is their puppet.)
To: Twotone
Without the ability to cry racism, White Liberals would have
one less reason to exist.
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posted on
03/02/2021 10:26:03 AM PST
by
indthkr
To: Twotone
So what would they have it do?
Give less accuracy if it detects the patient is white?
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posted on
03/02/2021 10:26:06 AM PST
by
farmguy
To: Twotone
The African plague will do greater harm to the American Republic than the Covid 19 plague
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posted on
03/02/2021 10:27:34 AM PST
by
bert
( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) History: Pelosi was pitiful vindictive California crone)
To: Twotone
Poor Michael Jackson never had a chance...snicker snicker.
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posted on
03/02/2021 10:27:41 AM PST
by
centermass_socrates
(Keep it clean, keep it loaded, and keep it handy.)
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