PSY 3711 Lecture 18: 18. Fairness and Bias 11.8.2018
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Fireman"s carry = biased: eliminates 99% of women in usa, firemen don"t normally do that, safer to drag people on the ground. 2 strategies: evaluate the job for necessary ksaos, train up skills, provide opportunity to train for the skills that are required for the job, the rich get richer, doesn"t eliminate differences between groups, widens gap between them. Cultural bias: requires understanding of the situation. If goal is to evaluate ability to write research articles that would be published in an apa journal and teach in the us, then yes. Journals are mostly in english: teaching is conducted in english, would be biased if behaviors measured are not connected to performance as a professor. Over-prediction occurs when actual performance is lower than the joint regression line would predict: workers from group x have lower performance than the scores would predict when this is based on an overall regression line.
