They know the game
They're also told, "answer truthfully for a best case outcome"
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ages of fourteen and twenty-four made up only 4.7 percent of thecity’s population, they accounted for 40.6 percent of the stop-and-friskchecks by police. More than 90 percent of those stopped were innocent.
Flagrant bias and misuse of power
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A University of Marylandstudy showed that in Harris County, which includes Houston,prosecutors were three times more likely to seek the death penalty forAfrican Americans, and four times more likely for Hispanics, than forwhites convicted of the same charges
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Sometimes these blind spots don’t matter. When we ask Google Mapsfor directions, it models the world as a series of roads, tunnels, andbridges. It ignores the buildings, because they aren’t relevant to the task.When avionics software guides an airplane, it models the wind, the speedof the plane, and the landing strip below, but not the streets, tunnels,buildings, and people.
Relativity
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All of us carry thousands of models in our heads.
Our working schemata dictate our behaviors.
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Maybe they predicted that a left-handed reliever would give up lots of hitsto right-handed batters—and yet he mowed them down
Do random 'statistical anomalies' need us to change the model? Repetition seems important in this case.
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complex tapestry of probabilities
Nothing is random, everything is probable.
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managers now knowprecisely where every player has hit every ball over the last week, over thelast month, throughout his career, against left-handers, when he has twostrikes, and so on
There are arguments to be had about if athletes are getting better or technology/data is getting better. I tend to nearly always see it as technology and data. Look at the suits Michael Phelps wore when he broke Olympic records in '04, & '08. There are reasons that those suits are now banned in competitive swimming.
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Rhee developed a teacherassessment tool called IMPACT, and at the end of the 2009–10 schoolyear the district fired all the teachers whose scores put them in thebottom 2 percent. At the end of the following year, another 5 percent, or206 teachers, were booted out
I was having a discussion with a 30-year teacher who is beloved in our school and about to retire. That teacher is mentoring a new teacher who is in his third year [last year of probationary teaching in Colorado] of teaching. The younger teacher was assigned a mentor because his performance scores have been quite low these last two years.
All that to say myself and the veteran teacher believe that MOST teacher assessment tools used in the school are used as punitive measures and excuses to let people go.
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using these algorithms called humans that are really biased,
Humans are a conglomeration of our experiences, are algorithms anything more than their total inputs?
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That kind of auditing is more common now, he says, since reports of biased algorithms have increased
Scream it from the rooftops
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200 million people in the United States each year
In a bucket this big, it is no wonder "one-size algorithms" don't fit all. Big data often uses algorithms to cut corn and the O'Neil video spoke to how the algorithms are produced causing inequalities while cutting these corners.
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data-feminism.mitpress.mit.edu data-feminism.mitpress.mit.edu
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basically, well-meaning liberal white people—are part of the problem in struggling for social justice.
It is an incredibly important position to know when to step-up or know when to step back. Step up in the face of oppression to point out the wrong but step back so as to not overpower the voices of the oppressed.
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But forces of oppression can be difficult to detect when you benefit from them (we call this a privilege hazard later in the book).d-undefined, .lh-undefined { background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) !important; }.d-08965af7-15f0-4167-901a-aa80e2b72f3c, .lh-08965af7-15f0-4167-901a-aa80e2b72f3c { background-color: var(--pubpub-active-discussion-highlight-color, rgba(45, 46, 47, 0.5)) }2Yolanda Yang, Jillian McCarteng the choices you make (or don’t get to make) each day. These systems of power are as real as rain. But forces of oppression can be difficult to detect when you benefit from them (we call this a privilege hazard later in the book). And this is where data come in: it was a set of intersecting systems of power and privilege that D?Yolanda Yang4 years agoPeople with privilege cannot recognize, even if they do, they are less likely to make any change, as this would decrease their benefit?Jillian McCarten2 years agoOne quote that I think of often is “when one has held a position of privilege for so long, equality feels like oppression.” ?Login to discuss.
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race and gender
Intersectionality
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result of many unnamed colleagues and friends who may or may not have considered themselves feminists.
The casting of many ripples. Positions of low power but high influence are important to cast these ripples.
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major systems of oppression are interlocking
Burn it all down.
But realistically, we cannot. So what is the next best option? We are fighting the good fight now, but how many of us and how long will it take?
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idea that these dimensions cannot be examined in isolation
Good working definition of intersectionality.
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eminism begins with a belief in the “political, social, and economic equality of the sexes,”.d-undefined, .lh-undefined { background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) !important; }1Michela Banks
Good definition to share and use.
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computers
Calling them "Computers" in this text emphasizes the explicit biases that were happening at the time.
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