Demographic statistics in defensive decisions.
A popular informal argument suggests that statistics about the preponderance of criminal involvement among particular demographic groups partially justify others in making defensive mistakes against members of the group. One could worry that evidence-relative accounts of moral rights vindicate this...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 198; no. 5; pp. 4833 - 4851 |
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