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1) AI Fairness
Author
Publisher
O'Reilly Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Are human decisions less biased than automated ones? AI is increasingly showing up in highly sensitive areas such as healthcare, hiring, and criminal justice. Many people assume that using data to automate decisions would make everything fair, but that's not the case. In this report, business, analytics, and data science leaders will examine the challenges of defining fairness and reducing unfair bias throughout the machine learning pipeline. Trisha...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When Laura Coates joined the Department of Justice as a prosecutor, she wanted to advocate for the most vulnerable among us. But she quickly realized that even with the best intentions, “the pursuit of justice creates injustice.” Through Coates’s experiences, we see that no matter how fair you try to fight, being Black, a woman, and a mother are identities often at odds in the justice system. She and her colleagues face seemingly impossible...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
"Thirty years ago, 'greed is good' and 'maximizing shareholder value' became the new mantras woven into the fabric of our business culture, economy, and politics. Pearlstein argues that our thirty year experiment in unfettered markets has undermined core values required to make capitalism and democracy work. He challenges the theories being taught in business schools and in boardrooms, believing that we're missing a key tenet of Adam Smith's wealth...
Author
Publisher
O'Reilly Media
Language
English
Description
Innovation and competition are driving analysts and data scientists toward increasingly complex predictive modeling and machine learning algorithms. This complexity makes these models accurate, but can also make their predictions difficult to understand. When accuracy outpaces interpretability, human trust suffers, affecting business adoption, model validation efforts, and regulatory oversight. In the updated edition of this ebook, Patrick Hall and...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Can you succeed without being a terrible person? We often think not: recognizing that, as the old saying has it, "nice guys finish last." But does that mean you have to go to the other extreme and be a bully or Machiavellian to get anything done? In The Art of Fairness, bestselling author David Bodanis uses thrilling case studies to show there's a better path, leading neatly in between. He reveals how it was fairness, applied with skill, that led...
Author
Publisher
Crown Archetype
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In 1998, after the author had spent 19 grueling years working at a Goodyear plant, an anonymous note showed her that she made 40 per cent less than her male counterparts. So began her decade-long legal battle for equal pay, a story she tells movingly and frankly. After a hardscrabble childhood in a small Alabama community, she knew a job at the nearby Goodyear plant meant lifelong financial stability. In 1979 as a manager there, she found men reluctant...
Author
Publisher
Russell Sage Foundation
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In today's social climate of acknowledged and growing inequality, why are there not greater efforts to tax the rich? In this book, the authors ask when and why countries tax their wealthiest citizens -- and their answers may surprise you. Drawing on evidence from 20 countries over the last 200 years, the book provides the broadest and most indepth history of progressive taxation available. The authors argue that governments don't tax the rich just...
Author
Publisher
Running Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
A guide for parents to help their children better understand the world around them by helping them think through the questions they face regarding honesty, friendship, sensitivity, fairness, dedication, individuality and 103 other character-building issues
Many families and almost all schools spend a great deal of time developing children academically, but studies show tht scholastic achievement is not the only key to future success....
Many families and almost all schools spend a great deal of time developing children academically, but studies show tht scholastic achievement is not the only key to future success....
Author
Series
NAEYC volume 1143
Publisher
National Association for the Education of Young Children
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Become a skilled anti-bias teacher with this eagerly awaited successor to the influential Anti-Bias Curriculum! This volume offers practical guidance on confronting and eliminating barriers of prejudice, misinformation, and bias and provides tips for helping staff and children respect each other, themselves, and all people. Individual chapters focus on culture and language, racial identity, family structures, gender identity, economic class, different...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"As reactions to the O. J. Simpson verdict, the Rodney King beating, and the Amadou Diallo killing make clear, whites and African Americans in the United States inhabit two different perceptual worlds, with the former seeing the justice system as largely fair and color blind and the latter believing it to be replete with bias and discrimination. Drawing on data from a nation-wide survey of both races, the authors tackle two important questions in...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of short stories centering around Nigerian women as they build lives out of hope, faith, and doubt, following such characters as a young woman faced with a dangerous decision to save her mother and a woman in love with another despite the penalties.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Decoded in one volume are the five simple steps that everyone can master to succeed in negotiation. In a category saturated with breezy, self-help volumes, Russell Korobkin's long-awaited The Five Tool Negotiator stands apart as a revelatory guide for anyone eager to improve their bargaining skills. The nationally renowned author, who has spent three decades studying successful negotiations, now shares five distinct "tools" that we can all readily...
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