Or just a nature of statistics. Reading criticisms of how data is applied to technology is always interesting to me. In this article, critics of the Microsoft "avoid ghetto" app have an apparent misconception of collected data and statistics. The criticism that avoiding bad neighborhoods associated as bad because of high crime rates is being correlated to minority groups by these, lets call them "race card pullers" is a fundamental logic flaw that any one with an elementary understanding of statistics can recognize. The fact that these card pullers are making the aforementioned assumption is ironically a rascist assumption. The app works by pulling hard data on crime rates, demographics, and others to present basic results on the safety of a neighborhood. Grow up.
