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It would be interesting to see how the code classified names as European/non-European. Given that apparently no ML was involved, I assume it was based on a lis
by chihuahua 8y ago
It would be interesting to see how the code classified names as European/non-European.
Given that apparently no ML was involved, I assume it was based on a list of European names, and if your name is not on the list, you're not European and you lose 15 points ? Or some kind of pattern matching (Reged or similar), again if your name doesn't match, you lose 15 points ?
It seems very strange that someone would go to such lengths to explicitly code this kind of bias.
- BeetleB 8y ago>It seems very strange that someone would go to such lengths to explicitly code this kind of bias. It's a fun intellectual exercise - like any other in academia. It's not as if they were working in a cutthroat commercial venture with hard deadlines. A simple rule would be to rule out certain orderings of characters. A name beginning with "Ng", or "Kp", etc. Also, given that this is the UK, just put in lots of popular Indian names (Patel, Singh).
- throw2016 8y agoBlatant racism and sexism can hardly be classified as 'fun intellectual exercises' but then we all like our euphemisms when things are not biased against us. Perhaps this is what privilege is, the privilege to be nonchalant of a world always somehow acting in our interests and against others interests and when discovered make light of any findings.
- inflatableDodo 8y agoPeccavi. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:18440518-Peccavi_Punch.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:18440518-Peccavi_Pun...