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发帖数: 246 | 1 http://www.npr.org/2016/10/19/498582157/propublica-reveals-discriminatory-pricing-by-computer-algorithms
昨天听NPR讲的，Princeton Review的SAT prep courses charge亚裔更多的钱。
Asians were nearly twice as likely to be charged a higher price in SAT prep
courses by Princeton Review than non-Asians because they're Asian or because
they live in certain ZIP codes.
ANGWIN: As far as we could tell - and the company said it was not an
intentional discrimination against Asians. They drew their lines for their
ZIP code pricing in a way that mostly captured a lot of high-income areas
but actually also managed to capture a lot of low-income, Asian areas. So
Queens, N.Y., is highly Asian but not a high-income area. And we don't
really know what went into their algorithm to make it turn out that way.
ANGWIN: I mean the truth is I'm not sure. It's very hard to prove intent.
All I can say as a reporter is that I have no evidence that there was an
intention to discriminate against Asians, but there may well have been. The
truth is that's why we called our series Black Boxes.
We can't see inside these algorithms that are black boxes. We can really
only look at the outputs and say, well, what it looks like is it's
discriminatory to Asians, but I don't know what you guys put into your
inputs to get it that way. | a********r
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