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> Its easy to imagine a dataset not skewed towards black people. ~15% of the population in North America, probably less in Europe, and way less in Asia.

What about Africa?



That's not where most of the data is coming from. If it was we'd be seeing the opposite effect, presumably.


I suppose that's the problem I have with that study. T


The story is that there exists this model which poorly predicts for black (and female) patients. Given there are probably lots of datasets where black people are a vast minority makes this not surprising.

For all I know there are millions of models with extremely poor accuracy based on African datasets. Wouldnt really change anything about the above though. I wouldnt expect that though and it would definitely be interesting.


How much medical data/papers do you think they generate in comparison to these three ?




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