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The point of laws against racial bias is to outlaw irrational discrimination based on irrelevant characteristics.
Even if employers are biased toward certain irrelevant characteristics, monozygotic twins should be affected by such biases equally.
Race and sex, in other words, are morally irrelevant characteristics when it comes to evaluating the like interests of different persons.
This is one reason that seemingly irrelevant characteristics, like appearance, or taste in food and drink, can have a big impact on credibility.
This kind of knowledge allows one to distinguish relevant from irrelevant characteristics.
Such questions raise the following concern: judgments about thought experiments dealing with moral issues might be strongly influenced by ethically irrelevant characteristics of example and audience.
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Isn't that an irrelevant characteristic, like a muffler that's available in designer colors?
Incidental conjunction occurs when an irrelevant characteristic of an ongoing task is encoded together with the relevant characteristic.
Species membership is a morally irrelevant characteristic, a bit of luck that is no more morally interesting than being born male or female, Malaysian or French.
These authors used a detection task to determine the interference of changing an irrelevant characteristic of an object, for example, its spatial location, on the recognition of a relevant characteristic, for example, the object's shape or color.
Bias of clinical examiners against some types of candidate, based on characteristics such as sex or ethnicity, would represent a threat to the validity of an examination, since sex or ethnicity are 'construct-irrelevant' characteristics.
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