@avibryant That's undoubtedly true; however, I think it's fair to say that tech could be, well, a little more diverse. No?
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@avibryant I just think anytime you have a more or less similar kind of people doing any one thing there's going to be a bubble effect.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@avibryant Which is unavoidable in certain cases. I just get uneasy when terms like 'objective' start to get thrown around.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@GarrettAdamPeck yeah, that's a silly word to use for this. The main recent lesson of "big data", IMO, is this:1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@GarrettAdamPeck if you have an immense number of examples of subjective human judgement, you can surprisingly often extract a template,1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@GarrettAdamPeck which can be stupidly applied by a computer to simulate similar subjective judgements in the future - not perfectly,1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@GarrettAdamPeck but if the type of judgement is simple and structured enough, then enough to be useful.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@GarrettAdamPeck objectivity don't enter into it.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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@avibryant In short, we need more scientists and people in tech to speak directly to the public in a nuanced and responsible manner.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@GarrettAdamPeck yeah, but people mostly just want to hear Rudder tell them that "iPhone users have more sex": http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/page/8/ …
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@avibryant Last comment (promise): Big issue = people can't "know" their biases when doing research without diversity.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@avibryant Ideology is not what you 'know', it's what you take for granted - what you always already assume to be true/natural/real.0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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