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I believe that makes for implicit racial bias.

E.g. a person could go to a store and either Find or Not Find a camera. For stores where they Find a camera, they can choose to form an opinion about cameras and whatever 'races' shop here, and leave.

E.g. a person could go to a store and see they are on camera. They can make an association about anti-theft cameras if the store is dominantly in a neighborhood of a specific 'race'. Then they go to another neighborhood dominated by a different 'race', from the same Store Chain, and see they are not on camera. They can speculate this neighborhood is trusted more by the store to be lower in theft.

E.g. two people could then be shopping in one store which has no cameras. One person belonging to a 'race' where cameras are typically found is seen by another. The other assumes, based upon prior observation, that this person of that 'race' is associated with theft. They are suspicious of that first person. ==> Bias against a person of a different race.



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