Bias
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Bias is a disproportionate weight in favor of or against an idea or thing, usually in a way that is inaccurate, closed-minded, prejudicial, or unfair. Biases can be innate or learned. People may devel
Confirmation bias has been described as an internal "yes man", echoing back a person's beliefs like Charles Dickens' character Uriah Heep.
Box offered by tobacco lobbyists to Dutch Member of the European Parliament Kartika Liotard in September 2013
Suffragette Dora Thewlis was arrested by the Metropolitan Police in 1914 for campaigning for women's right to vote.
Algorithmic bias
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Algorithmic bias describes systematic and repeatable harmful tendency in a computerized sociotechnical system to create "unfair" outcomes, such as "privileging" one category over another in ways that
A 1969 diagram for how a simple computer program makes decisions, illustrating a very simple algorithm
This card was used to load software into an old mainframe computer. Each byte (the letter 'A', for example) is entered by punching holes. Though contemporary computers are more complex, they reflect this human decision-making process in collecting and processing data.
Facial recognition software used in conjunction with surveillance cameras was found to display bias in recognizing Asian and black faces over white faces.