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Ohio State University

6/9/2017

Why Understanding Racial Bias is Crucial for the Responsible Use of Predictive Analytics

Elizabeth Green

As big data tools like predictive analytics become more prevalent, child-welfare agencies must grapple with implicit racial bias if they want to ensure that it does not cause harm, according to a new white paper published last month by the Kirwan Institute at Ohio State University.

5/31/2017

Accounting for Racial Bias When Applying Predictive Analytics to Child Welfare

Opinion

Kelly Capatosto

Research on implicit racial bias teaches us that individual-level, subjective decision-making practices are likely to generate biased outcomes. In fact, humans’ capacity to make objective, logical decisions is severely limited by a variety of systematic decision-making errors and external distractions.

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