A lot of people still just don't know how these technologies work, and so they sometimes fill in the gaps with pretty dark assumptions.
Perhaps we thought their views were backward and therefore irrelevant, or maybe we thought them to have somehow been a part of the problems with Islam behind 9/11 (God forbid such a series of dark assumptions), but we didn't solicit their voices when we put together a new legal system for the country.
In much the same way assumptions are made about me based on my dark skin tone, assumptions will be made about him because of his light skin tone.
On the assumption that darker skin color signified greater African admixture, he interpreted this pattern as evidence of a racial-genetic predisposition for hypertension; others followed suit [29], [44].
Figure 2 shows how the HIV impact is affected by a number of modelling assumptions; the dark bars represent the main intervention scenario.
Only the shot noise of the sensor has been considered in this calculation, on the assumption that the dark noise and readout noise are negligibly small.
The assumption that every dark haired, almond-eyed person roaming the streets must be somehow related to me got on my nerves after awhile--even if we maybe do look exactly the same and share a last name.
However, within a year of Lindzen's iris hypothesis paper being published, four scientific groups had published their own studies finding significant flaws in his methods and assumptions, shown in dark blue in the first graphic above.
Like other fundamentalists, they are attuned to the dark consequences of the Enlightenment assumptions implied in such developments, from the Pandora's Box opened by science unconnected to morality to the grotesque inequities that follow from industrialization and, more recently, globalization.
In a particularly mordant attack on the pseudoscience of "The Bell Curve," he repudiates not just the relegation of blacks to a cognitive lumpenproletariat but the corollary assumption that anyone not dark in hue is therefore white and measurable as such.
