What Is Techno-Chauvinism And Are We Relying Too Much on Unconscious Biased Systems? with Meredith Broussard
Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness
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Big Brother, It's Giving Me All Sorts of Scary Things
Ajita Durgahee: Techno chauvinism tells us that algorithms are somehow better or more objective than people. We embed our unconscious biases in the technology that we create, she says. Data journalists need to recognize that doing things on the computer is not always faster, cheaper, and better. Often it's far more expensive and time consuming.
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