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Claudia Wagner Oxford, May 2015 Inequalities and Biases in socio-technical systems

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Claudia Wagner Oxford, May 2015

Inequalities and Biases in socio-technical systems

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Doleac & Stein, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1615149

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How to detect biases?

• Audit Studies / Field Experiments

• Observational Study / Secondary Analysis of Data

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Gender Inequalities on Wikipedia

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4.4 times more likely to be reported in articles about women

3.8 times more likely to be reported in articles about women

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What do they have in common?

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The Smurfette Principle

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What about other stuff on Wikipedia?

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Unequal Chances

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