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   mekka okereke :verified: (mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jan-2024 06:30:17 JST mekka okereke :verified:

   Now that y'all have seen the differing career impacts, media coverage of, and societal reactions to, Black women being accused of plagiarism (Claudine Gay) and white women being accused of plagiarism (Neri Oxman)...

   you can understand why I say that widely used automated plagiarism detecting software that advertises a false positive rate of 1%🤦🏿♂️, is devastating for Black students.

   Another flavor of: in a racist country, being falsely accused has devastating consequences

   https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/Race-and-Wrongful-Convictions.aspx

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     183231bcb@transfem.social's status on Sunday, 28-Jan-2024 06:51:55 JST 183231bcb

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     @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io In Fall 2020 I was forced to use HonorLock, an "anti-cheat" suite which recorded videos of students taking tests in their dorm rooms and then used AI to determine whether or not they were cheating. I had to manually override it a lot because it automatically determined
     a)All black people are cheating because it can't recognize their faces at all,
     b)Anyone who has a roommate is cheating, because it's impossible to take a test in the same room as someone else,
     c)Anyone with autism or ADHD is cheating because their eyes move in unexpected ways,
     d)Anyone with photophobia or related eye conditions is cheating because their eyes move in unexpected ways,
     e)Anyone using accessability software is cheating because there's software running on their computer
     ...and a whole bunch of "cheating" accusations that I couldn't discern any reason for.

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     mekka okereke :verified: (mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jan-2024 10:47:55 JST mekka okereke :verified:

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     People do understand the power of compound interest...

     but magically, don't understand how the accumulation of each of these thousands of tiny injustices, could result in a difference in academic output of Black US students and white US students. 🤷🏿♂️

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     mekka okereke :verified: (mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jan-2024 10:47:57 JST mekka okereke :verified:

     in reply to

     A big part of the reason that white Americans and Black Americans have such different opinions on if we should get rid of cash bail, is that most white Americans think that the chances of ever being falsely accused of a crime, let alone arrested and charged for it, are astronomically low. Most Black people view this as almost an eventuality.

     Surprisingly, both groups are correct?🙂🙃
     Because the experience between groups is so different.

     "I didn't cheat! I don't know why the software said that!"

     Paul Cantrell repeated this.