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> 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
by 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