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What if the discrimination is based on interest? For example, the researcher found that a job ad for a car salesperson is more often shown to men and a job ad f
by Hermel 5y ago
What if the discrimination is based on interest? For example, the researcher found that a job ad for a car salesperson is more often shown to men and a job ad for a jewelry salesperson more often to women. But that could just be correlation, and not intentional causation. It makes perfect sense to show jewelry related ads to persons that are more interested in jewelry. In that case, the problem is not Facebook but the fact that women are more interested in jewelry than men and that men are more interested in cars than women.
- Ekaros 5y agoThis data is probably based on what types of ads users click or what type of posts they like or interact with. Thus if more men interact with car related items and more women with jewellery related items. Isn't the targeting working correctly? As surely your average employer prefers to hire a person that is interested in field and on other hand employee would prefer job in field they are interested in. Maybe only solution is to fix the content consumption habits. Force everyone to only see and interact with perfectly mixed and equally distributed content that in no way take their own interest in mind.