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Home / Proceedings / Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing

What You See Is What You Get? The Impact of Representation Criteria on Human Bias in Hiring

February 1, 2023

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Andi Peng,Besmira Nushi,Emre Kıcıman,Kori Inkpen,Siddharth Suri,Ece Kamar

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DOI:

10.1609/hcomp.v7i1.5281


Abstract:

Although systematic biases in decision-making are widely documented, the ways in which they emerge from different sources is less understood. We present a controlled experimental platform to study gender bias in hiring by decoupling the effect of world distribution (the gender breakdown of candidates in a specific profession) from bias in human decision-making. We explore the effectiveness of representation criteria, fixed proportional display of candidates, as an intervention strategy for mitigation of gender bias by conducting experiments measuring human decision-makers’ rankings for who they would recommend as potential hires. Experiments across professions with varying gender proportions show that balancing gender representation in candidate slates can correct biases for some professions where the world distribution is skewed, although doing so has no impact on other professions where human persistent preferences are at play. We show that the gender of the decision-maker, complexity of the decision-making task and over- and under-representation of genders in the candidate slate can all impact the final decision. By decoupling sources of bias, we can better isolate strategies for bias mitigation in human-in-the-loop systems.

Topics: HCOMP

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Andi Peng,Besmira Nushi,Emre Kıcıman,Kori Inkpen,Siddharth Suri,Ece Kamar What You See Is What You Get? The Impact of Representation Criteria on Human Bias in Hiring Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (2019) 125-134.

Andi Peng,Besmira Nushi,Emre Kıcıman,Kori Inkpen,Siddharth Suri,Ece Kamar What You See Is What You Get? The Impact of Representation Criteria on Human Bias in Hiring HCOMP 2019, 125-134.

Andi Peng,Besmira Nushi,Emre Kıcıman,Kori Inkpen,Siddharth Suri,Ece Kamar (2019). What You See Is What You Get? The Impact of Representation Criteria on Human Bias in Hiring. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, 125-134.

Andi Peng,Besmira Nushi,Emre Kıcıman,Kori Inkpen,Siddharth Suri,Ece Kamar. What You See Is What You Get? The Impact of Representation Criteria on Human Bias in Hiring. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing 2019 p.125-134.

Andi Peng,Besmira Nushi,Emre Kıcıman,Kori Inkpen,Siddharth Suri,Ece Kamar. 2019. What You See Is What You Get? The Impact of Representation Criteria on Human Bias in Hiring. "Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing". 125-134.

Andi Peng,Besmira Nushi,Emre Kıcıman,Kori Inkpen,Siddharth Suri,Ece Kamar. (2019) "What You See Is What You Get? The Impact of Representation Criteria on Human Bias in Hiring", Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, p.125-134

Andi Peng,Besmira Nushi,Emre Kıcıman,Kori Inkpen,Siddharth Suri,Ece Kamar, "What You See Is What You Get? The Impact of Representation Criteria on Human Bias in Hiring", HCOMP, p.125-134, 2019.

Andi Peng,Besmira Nushi,Emre Kıcıman,Kori Inkpen,Siddharth Suri,Ece Kamar. "What You See Is What You Get? The Impact of Representation Criteria on Human Bias in Hiring". Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, 2019, p.125-134.

Andi Peng,Besmira Nushi,Emre Kıcıman,Kori Inkpen,Siddharth Suri,Ece Kamar. "What You See Is What You Get? The Impact of Representation Criteria on Human Bias in Hiring". Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, (2019): 125-134.

Andi Peng,Besmira Nushi,Emre Kıcıman,Kori Inkpen,Siddharth Suri,Ece Kamar. What You See Is What You Get? The Impact of Representation Criteria on Human Bias in Hiring. HCOMP[Internet]. 2019[cited 2023]; 125-134.


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