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> There's nothing about ML that reinforces status quo more than traditional statistics

Yes but that is not how ML is marketed. It's marketed as way better than traditional statistics, and soon even better than humans.

But reality is that a trained system is only as good as the data used to train it.



> only as good

But ML can improve upon other methods of interpreting that (biased) data. Thus, in some ways better than traditional statistics and non-mathematical human intuition.




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