“It becomes this warped circle of logic.”
which was used as part of its calculations to determine who was eligible to tap into a $1 billion settlement for former players with traumatic brain injuries. The practice meant that some Black players’ claims were denied because the NFL’s equation assumed that those players started with a lower cognitive function. As the league reverses this discriminatory practice, it’s easy to pick out a villain: the NFL.But race norming isn’t just used by the league.
So you’re using a current snapshot of a disparity and using it for a predictive tool to almost continue that disparity into the future. Yeah, it becomes this warped circle of logic. When you see the signal for race, that should be a call to action, that these racial disparities are really stark and that they need to be addressed at their root cause, not that we should correct for them and just adjust our models around the disparity.And in the worst-case scenario, perpetuating the disparity forward if we’re just correcting our tools around them.
This VBAC tool is another one of those calculators for doctors. For women who have given birth once by C-section but want to try for a vaginal birth next time–a VBAC—this tool lets you plug in all kinds of information, and then you get a score that tells you how successful a vaginal birth is likely to be. The thing is telling the tool you were Black or Hispanic lowered your score.
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