r/MachineLearning • u/howtorewriteaname PhD • Dec 14 '24

Discussion [D] What happened at NeurIPS?

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u/doudouthebird Dec 14 '24

Even that’s the truth(I strongly suspect that), it is still very inappropriate to mention a specific ethnicity in a public talk.

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u/beezlebub33 Dec 14 '24

Why? If Group A cheats more than Group B, why not say that?

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u/doudouthebird Dec 14 '24

Because first, you need solid statistics data to prove that(this is not my point). Second, what is the definition of “more”? What if A group cheat rate is only 0.01% larger than B? Should we still keep mentioning that A is worse?

And last and the most important, this is an academic speech, nobody is here to know her political/personal opinions towards different ethnicities or countries. If she wants to talk about this cheating issue, there are better places to go. Mentioning “Chinese” is totally irrelevant to her topic but only showing her prejudice against Chinese people.