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Bias hunters

Suggested age: 13-17Length: 20 minutes

Six systems that already exist. In some the problem is the data they were trained on; in others, the question somebody decided to ask them.

Pick a card, then pick the group it belongs to.

Teacher sheet

Goal. Separate two different problems that usually share a name: an unrepresentative dataset, and a question that was wrong from the start.

Questions to open the discussion

The idea that should stick. A data bias is fixed with better data. A question bias is not fixed with data: the question has to change, and a person decides that.

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