{"id":248,"date":"2002-05-12T13:25:58","date_gmt":"2002-05-12T13:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2002\/05\/12\/valid_uses_of_stereotyping.html"},"modified":"2002-05-12T13:25:58","modified_gmt":"2002-05-12T13:25:58","slug":"valid_uses_of_stereotyping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2002\/05\/12\/valid_uses_of_stereotyping.html","title":{"rendered":"valid uses of stereotyping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Given the controversy over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2002\/05\/05\/magazine\/05PROFILE.html?pagewanted=all&#038;position=top\">race-based medical profiling<\/a>, i can&#8217;t help but wonder when it&#8217;s good or bad to use stereotyping, both in medicine and beyond.  Could you imagine a doctor that didn&#8217;t ask if you were a (fe)male?  Could i imagine having a colonoscopy for equality&#8217;s sake?  Hmm&#8230; On the other hand, the joke at MIT is that the doctors will always ask if you are pregnant &#8211; i wonder if they ask the boys that&#8230;<br \/>\nI guess i really don&#8217;t have a problem with being treated differently for having different body parts, or for fitting into different risk categories.  At my age, they have a list of possible failures that they look for.  Based on my historical health, my sex, my family&#8217;s previous health, my age, etc&#8230; they create a list of stereotypes that they check for when dealing with my health.  That seems reasonable, even if i despise the medical industry.  Why not race?<br \/>\nThe problem that i see is not whether or not they use stereotypes to give me better quality services given good statistics; the problem occurs when i am treated unequally or not given services or charged more or not given insurance or &#8230; Stereotypes are not inherently evil; it is their uses that we must evaluate.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.activism.net\/cypherpunk\/\">cypherpunk<\/a> login for nytimes: c1ph3rpunk\/c1ph3rpunk]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given the controversy over race-based medical profiling, i can&#8217;t help but wonder when it&#8217;s good or bad to use stereotyping, both in medicine and beyond. Could you imagine a doctor that didn&#8217;t ask if you were a (fe)male? Could i imagine having a colonoscopy for equality&#8217;s sake? Hmm&#8230; On the other hand, the joke at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}