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Google Street View reveals how built environment correlates with risk of cardiovascular disease (medicalxpress.com)
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[โ€“] Umbrias@beehaw.org 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Except all they really did was take regional heart disease rates and threw a machine learning task at Google street view. They might as well have made a machine learning model that identities wealthy neighborhood features, not actually things which impact heart disease. This just sounds like a hammer looking for nails.

To be more specific, they took a correlation, slapped ai on it, and found the same correlation out the other side.