�㽶��Ƶ News - Bias

How our own identity impacts how we judge others

webfull — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 14:11:14 +0000

How does our own identity impact how we perceive and judge others? Research from �㽶��Ƶ has found that those who are most likely to be stereotyped based on their combined racial and gender identity, such as Black women and Asian men, were less likely to hold certain stereotypes against others.

Published: 8 February 2023

A new book reveals the hidden biases that can creep into Data Science models

webfull — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 15:27:40 +0000

Yesterday (September 6, 2016) saw the launch of a new book by Cathy O'Neil with the provactive title Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy. O'Neil holds a Ph.D. from Harvard in Math and was a tenure-track math professor until 2007, when she quit academia to join Wall Street. That fledging second career came to an end just a year later with the Financial Crisis, after which O'Neil again changed careers and became a data scientist.

Published: 7 September 2016

Gender Bias Issue

webfull — Thu, 30 Apr 2015 16:09:09 +0000

Published: 30 April 2015