4 human-caused biases we need to fix for machine learning

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. 4 human-caused biases we need to fix for machine learning
Glen Ford, TheNextWeb, 2018/10/28
The response to three of the four biases reported in this post is diversity. And I would add that just as machines need diversity in order to avoid bias, so do humans. That's why diversity is valuable. Anyhow here's the breakdown of the three (all quoted from the text):

• Sample bias is a problem with training data... (we need a sample) both large enough and representative enough to mitigate sample bias.
• Measurement bias happens when there’s an issue with the device used to observe or measure... best avoided by having multiple measuring devices (and I would add, multiple types of measuring devices)
• Algorithm bias is a mathematical property of an algorithm. The counterpart to bias in this context is variance.

The fourth type of bias is prejudice bias, and "is a result of training data that is influenced by cultural or other stereotypes." More...