Bias
topic on 3 shows · 4 statements across 4 episodes
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the MAD Podcast
4 statements about Bias, every show
Stutman: People are systematically more critical of others in their own strengths
“There's a bias that almost everybody has across the whole world. You have it, I have it, everybody has it, and that is, we're generally more critical of people based on our own strengths. Whatever it is that we're good at, we're more critical about other peopl…”
Barrett: Scientific consensus is only reliable when scientists hold diverse backgrounds
“If you get a group of scientists who all have different backgrounds and different assumptions, and they come together in consensus, you can be much more sure that what you're observing is very likely to be the case in this circumstance. Right. However, you hav…”
Cain: Bias Emerges in Ambiguous, Non-Extreme Performance Evaluations
“It's where bias happens is when the Video shows someone doing something pretty well, but not perfectly. Like an eight out of 10. Seven or eight, somewhere in there. Then the man gets the eight, and the female gets the seven.”
Not collecting protected class data does not prevent algorithmic bias
“What's happened a lot in the past is people have kind of like taken the head in the sand approach where they've sort of said like, oh you know, we're not even collecting protected classes, so we can't possibly be biased as far as we know, and that's no longer …”