Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women

Re:Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias ... by deegles on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @02:27PM (#18187604)

There was a company meeting one year at Amazon when they proudly announced that men and women were paid within 1-2% of each other for the same roles. It completely missed the point which you raise.

I want to see reports of average tenure and time between promotions by gender. I suspect that the reason we don't see those published is that the numbers are damning.

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Re:Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias ... by zaarn on Thursday October 11, 2018 @04:50AM (#18191881)

Or possibly noone did a study of sufficient size that passed peer review.

It's also not hard to make the pay gap 1-2% just like it's not hard to make it 25% (both values are valid). Statistics is a fun field. Don't trust statistics you didn't fake yourself.

Amazon could easily cook the numbers to get to 1-2%, I doubt anyone checked the process of determining that number if it's unbiased and fair and accounts for other factors or not.

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