From 8efb8f20b2601a5d1832949b67db895bd4f8a035 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Patrick Hoefler <61934744+phofl@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2023 21:33:41 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fixup

---
 pandas/core/algorithms.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pandas/core/algorithms.py b/pandas/core/algorithms.py
index 1d93845f2f2ed..8e1b42f531b06 100644
--- a/pandas/core/algorithms.py
+++ b/pandas/core/algorithms.py
@@ -931,7 +931,7 @@ def value_counts_internal(
 
             # For backwards compatibility, we let Index do its normal type
             #  inference, _except_ for if if infers from object to bool.
-            idx = Index(keys, dtype=input_dtype)
+            idx = Index(keys, dtype=input_dtype if input_dtype != "float16" else None)
             if idx.dtype == bool and keys.dtype == object:
                 idx = idx.astype(object)
             elif idx.dtype != keys.dtype: