Talk:Discrimination in Algorithms

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The length requirement is satisfied at least for the draft.

The structure of wiki has all three components needed. The author clearly defines the topic about algorithms and some of its negative effects in the introduction paragraph. It is good to see the direction laid out pretty clearly in the introduction, but there is a bit of minor issue that the opinion comes a bit fast with not too much references or supports, and it may be suggested that the author could make the argument on the introduction paragraph a bit more objective, as it is somehow making an argument for how algorithms are rather than explaining the issue. The body paragraphs are organized well, diving the bias into categories like creation bias, analysis bias and evaluation bias. However perhaps each subtitle contains too little information and sometimes even just one sentence, and I believe it maybe better to add more content or just trying to integrate them into one. As for now even the points are valid it still looks very hollow and the author needs to make them more informative. However I suggest including more references, right now the author is using one reference for too many points made in the article.


For the clarity part, the ethics issues are well exposed by the supporting evidences by the author that algorithms are creating racisms and sexisms that may or may not be intended, but a suggestion is that we can expand more topics on it, as for now the ethics issues seem very limited, and does not elaborate upon the previous information like data creation bias... etc.

The Objective reporting needs a bit improvement in the Impact part. I feel the Impact sub paragraph is great with supporting evidences stated, it may just need a little fixation on how we choose the sentence to make the paragraph more objective, perhaps not starting with "Algorithms are ..." because it seems to be pushing an argument rather than providing information for the readers to judge themselves.

By Zhaoyu Dai.