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