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The issue here is how am I as a software developer supposed to combat that bias? Given the contrived arrest rate example above, do I multiply every black arres
by ZoF 10y ago
The issue here is how am I as a software developer supposed to combat that bias?
Given the contrived arrest rate example above, do I multiply every black arrest by .7 to compensate for bias?
How would a system built this way be useful in practice?
Why are these parallels always drawn against racial divides as well? How are we compensating for the poor white kid missing out or the rich black kid getting benefits he might not need?
It's such a messy problem but I don't think building bias into software is the solution.
I prefer factually correct, biased systems to incorrect, still-biased-just-in-another-way systems.
- GavinMcG 10y ago> The issue here is how am I as a software developer supposed to combat that bias? Yes. And that is exactly the question you should ask yourself in work you do. It's on all of us to unroot social ills. Even though it's thankless and difficult work.
- ZoF 10y agoAmorphously defined and not at all actable. Doesn't sound like hacking to me. Thanks but I'll take my code without the side of social justice warrior.
- NetTechM 10y agoWell said, I am not a judge, nor do I plan to pour over millions of criminal arrests to make judgment calls (which would negate the purpose of automation)... All we can work with is the data given.