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More like "Does your software use math to establish statistical correlations in data, and does that make you angry?" Relevant excerpt: > [A Microsoft research
by anonytrary 9y ago
More like "Does your software use math to establish statistical correlations in data, and does that make you angry?"
Relevant excerpt:
> [A Microsoft researcher] said that omitting variables like gender and race in different algorithms isn’t always the solution to countering bias. In some cases, like medical predictions, these variables could be important to accuracy. And there can be other variables, like ZIP codes, that can correlate with race and introduce bias into models that don’t explicitly include race.
- jrs95 9y agoYeah, this has way more to do with limits in software implementations than anything else imo. But of course the implication in some of the language in this article is that we wouldn’t have this problem if we just got rid of the white men. I have a different suggestion. Let’s just give control of the software development process to the HR department and see if they can eliminate these issues and effectively deliver products at the same time.