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minus-squareskisnow@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·3 days agoFor a given individual, sure. If you’re trying to do some statistics over a whole group that you have no other record for, it could be useful.
minus-squarebss03@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down4·3 days agoSounds like those statistics output would the heavily biased by whatever process you were using to turn names into genders. In short, a bad idea.
minus-squareTangledHyphae@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·3 days ago“Since the dataset isn’t 100% perfectly annotated for analysis, we should give up the whole project entirely.”
minus-squareShanmugha@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-22 days agoNo, since the dataset is bound to give nonsensical results, we search for sources that are more precise. Hint: “Andrea” already mentioned and Japanese names
minus-squarebss03@infosec.publinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 days ago“Since the data is incomplete, we decided to make shit up”
For a given individual, sure. If you’re trying to do some statistics over a whole group that you have no other record for, it could be useful.
Sounds like those statistics output would the heavily biased by whatever process you were using to turn names into genders. In short, a bad idea.
“Since the dataset isn’t 100% perfectly annotated for analysis, we should give up the whole project entirely.”
No, since the dataset is bound to give nonsensical results, we search for sources that are more precise. Hint: “Andrea” already mentioned and Japanese names
“Since the data is incomplete, we decided to make shit up”