Ignoring the whiny feminism, this is very cool! Language use reflects reality in a deep way. https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.06520 pic.twitter.com/bdto4mKI4I
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@PsychRabble Some pretty cool evidence of stereotype accuracy in this paper, and some funny PC quotes you can use for upcoming papers that complain about leftism embedded in research language use. <-- Someone should show this quantitatively using machine learning!Show this thread
E.g. this one is particularly obvious. Word embeddings across datasets highly correlated, and correlates pretty well with ratings by human subjects from MTurk. Still, they don't use the chance to calculate the actual accuracy using known distributions of professions! Why?pic.twitter.com/XfPJqtvbMa
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This research was done down the hall from me! It's not quite right to say language use is just reflected in word embeddings. ML seeks to generalize so will amplify stereotypes.
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My position is that the amplification of bias from 'reality' or our current set of training data is bad because it violates my sense of Rawlsian justice. Here is some good documentation/fixing of that amplification, also from Boston University: https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.09797
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My working hypothesis is that embedding sex roles in language use acts as useful guidelines for humans and is generally speaking beneficial. Suggests well tried and proven paths for individuals to pursue based on their sex. Outliers can ignore them as they see fit.
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You now, the "why" q is actually social psychologically interesting. The obv one is poli/equalitarian biases (I suspect you knew that). BUT there is at least 1 purely cog and 2 social possibilities.
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Acc is not a hot topic. It really just doesn't occur to anyone to ask the q (sorta like never controlling for intellig in studies of competence about ... anything). A social explanation is that acc is not in the social sci lits much, so other stuff (esp bias) crowds out thinking
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A 3rd social explanation is fear of All Hell Breaking Loose if one even speculated that any of this stuff was accurate. Some might retort Hell only breaks loose rarely. Bad argument. You can prob exceed speed lim by 30mph lots of times and only rarely get tix or accident.
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