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The statement verbatim was >the algorithm found two factors to be most indicative of job performance: their name was Jared, and whether they played high school
by fluoridation 4y ago
The statement verbatim was
>the algorithm found two factors to be most indicative of job performance: their name was Jared, and whether they played high school lacrosse
That doesn't mean that the "pinnacle of human achievement" necessarily is named Jared and played lacrosse in high school. It means that if you hire people who meet those conditions after filtering using X additional criteria, on average you'll get a more performant workforce than if you hire from the general population after filtering using X additional criteria.
The algorithm found an objective truth. Given the data provided and the question asked, the answer should be indisputable. The only reason to reject it should be because someone thinks the answer is incorrect, but that means that either the algorithm is incorrect, the data is incorrect, or the question was poorly phrased.
- ok_dad 4y ago> The algorithm found an objective truth The "objective truth" for this specific data is that out of all people hired dudes named jared and/or lacrosse players were more high achieving. That is where you get it wrong: the data is reflective of the bias in the current process, to remove that bias you can't simply reinforce the current behaviors via AI math-washing the same data.
- fluoridation 4y agoThat's silly. That would imply that the hiring process is actually very good at predicting performance, and it's biased towards hiring highly performant people named Jared and less performant people not named Jared, and it's not hiring highly performant people not named Jared and less performant people named Jared.
- ok_dad 4y agoWhat are you talking about? I was saying that the biases we have today in our hiring cannot be eliminated by analyzing that data and hiring the same types of people that are "high performance", because you'll be reinforcing the biases we have, rather than eliminating them.
- idontpost 4y ago
- FormerBandmate 4y agoThe algorithm found that rich white preppy kids tend to perform better at a certain job, and then generalized that to say that you should hire them over other candidates. We don't know what that job was (for something like ultra-high-net-worth wealth management, that might be way more true then coding), and we don't know whether the metrics of performance used are applicable to anything besides how much the boss liked them
- amusedcyclist 4y ago"The algorithm found an objective truth". Man you really have no idea how any of this works do you