NEW: out of 21 states that use machine learning systems to score student essays, only THREE have a human check the algorithm’s work — and those algorithms are plagued with bias
a new @motherboard investigation by @ToddFeathers:https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pa7dj9/flawed-algorithms-are-grading-millions-of-students-essays …
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this is wild: essay-scoring algorithms give high or perfect marks to essays composed of randomly-generated gibberish here’s what happened when we fed an algorithm some of this nonsense text
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@GaryMarcus and@mathbabedotorg will have a word with designers and buyers of those systems.
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Watch this space - @mathbabedotorg and I will do an amazing event together in NYC Sept 11, to be announced shortly.
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