• intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    Look. For any given person, their domestic violence rate is either zero, or one.

    Statistics aren’t the end of the story here, or even relevant honestly.

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      8 months ago

      They’re absolutely relevant when you’re talking about building a user interface for billions of people. You could put a domestic abuse warning on every single search result page, or you could put it on no pages, or you could put it on a subset of all results; and when you’re already putting it on a subset of all results, you’re making a decision as to which queries to exclude it from, which means you need statistics to decide which pages need it the most.