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59 changes: 59 additions & 0 deletions website/src/assets/College/collegeLabContent.js
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},
},
{
post: {
profilePic: teachLogo,
profilePicName: "Profile Picture - Facial Recognition",
header: "Learning from Biased Decisions",
headerLink: true,
linkTo: "facebook",
subheader: "What served as the source for bias in GRADE?",
bodyText: [
{
body: (
<p className="bold">
While GRADE greatly reduced the admission office's workload, the
ML model's decisions were problematic as they expressed heavy bias
towards male applicants. This is because{" "}
<u>
the gender distribution in UT Austin's engineering department
has been historically skewed towards men,
</u>{" "}
with less than a quarter of graduate students being women.{" "}
<br></br> <br></br>
These past decisions served as{" "}
<mark className="blue highlight">tainted examples</mark> for the
model's training dataset, since such decisions were{" "}
<b>
heavily affected by human bias and do not accurately represent
an applicant's competence.{" "}
</b>
</p>
),
},
],
},
},
{
commentSection: {
profilePic: teachLogo,
profilePicName: "Teach Logo",
followups: [
{
questionHeader: "Reflection Question 1:",
question: "In what other situations would we find tainted examples?",
answers: [
<p>
If a model was taught to predict employee performance through past
data of annual review scores, then what the actual model would do
is predicting
<mark className="bold">
how the manager perceives employee performance rather than their
actual performance.
</mark>{" "}
For example, sports fans would be more likely to buy merch for the
team(s) they root for as opposed to any random team.
</p>,
],
},
],
},
},
];
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