A big biometric security company in the UK, Facewatch, is in hot water after their facial recognition system caused a major snafu - the system wrongly identified a 19-year-old girl as a shoplifter.
A big biometric security company in the UK, Facewatch, is in hot water after their facial recognition system caused a major snafu - the system wrongly identified a 19-year-old girl as a shoplifter.
Yep, classic fallacy (? Bias?) of consider relative scales/change over absolute.
Here are some sources that speak about the difference between the two, and how different interpreters of data can use either or to further an argument:
https://dataschool.com/misrepresenting-data/relative-vs-absolute-change/
https://stats.mom.gov.sg/SL/Pages/Absolute-vs-Relative-Change-Pitfalls.aspx
https://www.designreview.byu.edu/collections/design-in-data-figures-absolute-versus-relative-scales