Absolutely unsurprising, continuing long trend from audit studies of hiring, housing, etc. https://twitter.com/nancyleong/status/675440392347717633 …
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Formal and impersonal rules benefit communities otherwise discriminated against. AirBNB -> formal to informal. Uber -> informal to formal.
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In other words, taxis maybe be worse than Uber for people who are discriminated against. Hotels may be better than AirBnB for same group.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Justin Wolfers
Another example in which moving from human referral to tests/formal processes helps curb discrimination:https://twitter.com/JustinWolfers/status/718502617630973953 …
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There is so much complexity of moving from largely human-based decision-making to formalization, be it through bureaucracy or computation.
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AirBnB requests by black man get rejected so he sets up fake white profiles.. He says they got immediately accepted.https://www.buzzfeed.com/krishrach/this-black-man-was-rejected-by-an-airbnb-host-then-was-accep …
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