Weinberger, Naftali (2021) Signal Manipulation and the Causal Status of Race. [Preprint]
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Discussions of the causal status of race focus on the question of whether race itself can be experimentally manipulated. Yet many experiments testing for racial discrimination do not manipulate race, but rather a signal by which race influences an outcome. Such signal manipulations are easily formalized, though contexts of discrimination introduce an additional issue. Whether a signal counts as a signal for race is not merely a causal question, but depends on sociological and normative issues regarding discrimination. The notion of signal manipulation enables one to take these issues into account while still using causal counterfactual tests to detect discrimination.
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Keywords: | Causation; Race; Manipulability; Discrimination; Causal Modeling; Experiments | ||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Causation General Issues > Experimentation General Issues > Feminist Approaches General Issues > Operationalism/Instrumentalism General Issues > Science and Society Specific Sciences > Sociology |
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Depositing User: | Mr. Naftali Weinberger | ||||||
Date Deposited: | 19 Oct 2021 17:44 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 19 Oct 2021 17:44 | ||||||
Item ID: | 19710 | ||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Causation General Issues > Experimentation General Issues > Feminist Approaches General Issues > Operationalism/Instrumentalism General Issues > Science and Society Specific Sciences > Sociology |
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Date: | October 2021 | ||||||
URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/19710 |
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