Tag Archives: bias
Critical race theory
Attaching labels can be unfortunate. This was my reaction to politicians labeling Democrats as socialists. The same is now how I see the use of the label “critical race theory“. My concern is that labels of complex positions are too … Continue reading
Top vs. latest tweets
I have been arguing that Twitter is less likely to influence how I see the world than Facebook because it does not use my online behavior to show what it thinks I want to see. It turns out that I … Continue reading
Should have stopped with PageRank
I was a fan of Google and Google search from the beginning because their algorithm for prioritizing search results made sense to me. Pagerank was similar to citation frequency which academics recognize as an indication of the importance of their … Continue reading
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Demonstrating the filter bubble
Five or six years ago or so, Eli Pariser wrote a book entitled the Filter Bubble. The core idea in this book was that online information companies personalize our online experience serving our personal priorities rather than presenting the world … Continue reading