The female problem: how male bias in medical trials ruined women's health

Intersting article on #bias in #medical trials and how proper #statistics training is still important.

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/nov/13/the-female-problem-male-bias-in-medical-trials

​​Racial Disparities in Automated Speech Recognition

To no surprise, speech recognition tools have #bias due to the lack of diversity in the datasets. Group of explorers addressed that issue and provided their’s research results as a paper and #reproducible research repo.

Project link: https://fairspeech.stanford.edu
Paper: https://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1915768117
Github: https://github.com/stanford-policylab/asr-disparities

#speechrecognition #voice #audiolearning #dl #microsoft #google #apple #ibm #amazon

​​Survivorship bias

This is when people tend to focus on available data, ignoring what they don't see.

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

#bias

​​Characterising Bias in Compressed Models

Popular compression techniques turned out to amplify bias in deep neural networks.

ArXiV: https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.03058

#NN #DL #bias