Keynote: Ethics: What You Know & What You Don't Know | Deb Nicholson | CHAOSScon EU 2020
Channel: CHAOSS
Date: 22/02/2020

Keynote: Ethics: What You Know & What You Don't Know

Metrics give us a lot of insight into what's going on with our projects -- but only if we have enough context. The catch is that personal biases and pre-conceptions are extremely hard to filter for so no one person can see everything. Those gaps means that even the most well-meaning of us could end up doing more harm than good. In this talk, I'll share a few examples of the ways human brains make assumptions, some of our typical blind spots and how incomplete data can cause harm when deployed without any checks. For folks who collect, analyze and ultimately make mission critical decisions with metrics, the challenge is to constantly maintain a bit of healthy skepticism of what the numbers seem to be telling us.

Slides: https://chaoss.github.io/website/CHAOSScon/2020EU/slides/ethics.pdf

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