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Similarly, algorithms trained to mimic human decisions will mimic human biases. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11753805 https://news.ycombinator.com/
by nix0n 10y ago
Similarly, algorithms trained to mimic human decisions will mimic human biases. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11753805 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11753805 (probably others too)
- yummyfajitas 10y agoThat article is fundamentally dishonest. The author's own statistical analysis (see their R-script and my comments on the article) cannot reject the null hypothesis that the algorithm is unbiased. I wrote a more detailed critique here: https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2016/propublica_is_lying.html https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2016/propublica_is_lying....