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It is no secret that more men pursue careers in this field. How can you expect any algorithm to produce an equal number of men and woman applicants? If it did t
by izzydata 8y ago
It is no secret that more men pursue careers in this field. How can you expect any algorithm to produce an equal number of men and woman applicants? If it did this then that would be actually biased in favor of woman.
If this is what they want then they have to feed their neutral algorithm pre-biased data to get their expected results.
- briandear 8y agoI think it isn’t equality in numbers but in activity screening out women. So there may still be a 8:1 ratio of men:women but according to the article, it would seem than even that 1 women would have been negatively impacted. I am not arguing the validity of their conclusions, just saying that I don’t think that it’s about equal numbers: given a male and female applicant, according to the article, women would have had an unequal chance of passing the screening. (Now if that inequality was for valid reasons, that to me, is an open question, but the article indicates that there was unjustifiable bias.)
- izzydata 8y agoFair enough. I'm still skeptical of their interpretation without more details, but anything is possible.