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I'm surprised by the ordering [Blacks, Asians, Hispanics, Latinos, African Americans, Whites, Native Americans]; I would have expected it to put Native Americans earlier in the list and Asians later.


A good example of the imbalanced and terminally arbitrary nature of existing text corpora.

Also, perhaps, a preview of the infinitely regressive, race-to-the-bottom nature of trying to hierarchically rank (privilege | vulnerability | harm | etc). That’s before considering change over time… eg- how has the perception of “Asian” category’s privilege changed between 1970 and 2020.


Possibly because they couldn't use the term "Indians" in this experiment because it would produce ambiguous statements.




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