{"id":909,"date":"2019-10-18T15:54:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T15:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/?p=909"},"modified":"2019-10-18T15:54:37","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T15:54:37","slug":"algorithms-and-feminism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/critical\/algorithms-and-feminism\/","title":{"rendered":"Algorithms and Feminism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I was not aware of the effect of inaccurate algorithms on society. Cathy O’Neil explains algorithms in her talk \u201cThe Truth About Algorithms\u201d<\/a>. She defines an algorithm as basically mathematical opinions and all that is needed for form them is a data set and a definition of success. Cathy makes an interesting point when she explains how her definition of a successful meal differs from her sons definition. Algorithms can be racist, sexist and bias and completely untrue. It is necessary to try to develop a way for these algorithms to be fair. People can lose their jobs, lose money and much more because of a faulty algorithm.\u00a0Companies are now having the idea of being transparent in their algorithms.<\/a> Basically so individuals can see how the algorithm is made and on what terms and bases. But in my opinion I don’t see how this is being completely fair. People can now see what they were judged on but also is that judgement is still coming from an opinion? I am open to the idea and I understand how being transparent is better than being left in the dark. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the 1930s and into the 1940s women were just starting to emerge as workers. The American Yawp<\/a> explains how during this time women began to take roles in office and Eleanor Roosevelt was a strong first lady who took charge and strived for change. Although even with the few successes of women in office the New Deal programs were essentially built for men. The spark for change was lit in the 1930s and has continued to burn ever since. Women are still fighting for equal rights and I believe will continue until successful. Pay differences in the workplace is one of the main changes I hear about still.\u00a0
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I was not aware of the effect of inaccurate algorithms on society. Cathy O’Neil explains algorithms in her talk \u201cThe Truth About Algorithms\u201d. She defines an algorithm as basically mathematical opinions and all that is needed for form them is a data set and a definition of success. Cathy makes an interesting point when she … Continue reading “Algorithms and Feminism”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-critical","tag-fall-2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":928,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions\/928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}