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Target was outing teen pregnancies back in the 2010s - https://pubadmin.institute/psychology-and-media/target-predi...

it's probably even more dystopian now with phone apps vacuuming up every last dreg.

Apparently there's some skepticism about the Target pregnancy story. https://medium.com/@colin.fraser/target-didnt-figure-out-a-t...

yeah, if n=1 then there's no distinguishing it from natural phenomena. regardless of its accuracy, the wanton hoovering up of data is still in full force - that was the whole motivation behind the 'big data' fad (ie when MBAs read a Nate Silver article en masse and believed stats could solve everything)

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