4. Conclusion "...grounding one’s work in an understanding of structural racism will improve model accuracy..."
It is not an interesting result to say models not modeling reality are less accurate; the cogent discussion is to what degree systemic racism exists IN reality. This is textbook begging the question.
Acknowledgements: Conflict of Interest: None declared.
Funding: Whitney R. Robinson is supported by the National Institute of Minority Health
I am not familiar with standards of conflict declaration, but this looks like a pretty clear conflict of interest to me.
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It is not an interesting result to say models not modeling reality are less accurate; the cogent discussion is to what degree systemic racism exists IN reality. This is textbook begging the question.
I am not familiar with standards of conflict declaration, but this looks like a pretty clear conflict of interest to me.