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@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ st.markdown('''Defining the target variable is not only difficult; it can also h
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  st.markdown('''These issues are not limited to hiring contexts. They arise in any case where there is no simple mathematical translation of a real-world problem. Take university admissions, for example. One might use an algorithm to predict which applicants will be “good” students.” What makes for a good student, though? A student who performs the best on exams at the end of their degree? A student who improves the most in their time at university? A student who doesn’t drop out, or who wins awards, or who gets a prestigious job after graduating, or contributes to the university in extracurricular activities? As with saying what makes for a good salesperson, the answer may be “some of everything,” and so again the question arises: how much of everything? Or consider another case: a news recommendation algorithm for an online platform. What makes for a “good” recommendation? Is it one that maximizes the user’s time on the platform, or that maximizes ad sales, or that is not “biased” along political lines (and then: which political lines?), or that best satisfies the user’s preferences, or that does not spread misinformation, or that prevents political polarization, or…? How these questions are answered—and how these different considerations are weighed against one another—has profound implications for fairness and other social and ethical concerns.''')
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- st.markdown('''This point is vividly illustrated by how Google’s search engine handles results with misinformation. When designing a search engine, you want to give “good” search results. What makes for a good search result, though? A common answer is that good search results are relevant. But if a search engine gives search results that are simply relevant—without any other consideration taken into account—the search engine may spread misinformation [(Phillips-Brown, manuscript)](https://philarchive.org/archive/PHIANJ). Consider that as of December 12, 2016, Google’s search engine delivered the following results for the query “did the Holocaust happen?”''')
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  st.image('./images/google_screenshot.png')
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  st.image('./images/google_screenshot_2.png')
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- st.markdown('''Target variable definition, then, is not a merely technical matter. The question of what makes for a “good” employee, student, or news recommendation (and so on) is fundamentally value-laden. It calls for close attention and transparency [(Fazelpour & Danks, 2021)](https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/phc3.12760). All too often, though, target variables are defined in technical settings without attention to fairness. Further, stakeholders who aren't a part of the technical process—like managers in non-technical roles, or those working in upper management or human resources—either do not understand, or are simply not aware of, the fraught nature of target variable definition.''')
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  st.markdown('''We have developed FairTargetSim (FTS) to help address this issue. The simulator makes the implications of target variable definition explicit—and transparent—and offers a blue-print for those who want to address these effects in practice. FTS uses the case study of hiring; the lessons one can draw from it extend to any domain in which there are no clear-cut answers to the question of target variable definition.''')
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  st.markdown('''These issues are not limited to hiring contexts. They arise in any case where there is no simple mathematical translation of a real-world problem. Take university admissions, for example. One might use an algorithm to predict which applicants will be “good” students.” What makes for a good student, though? A student who performs the best on exams at the end of their degree? A student who improves the most in their time at university? A student who doesn’t drop out, or who wins awards, or who gets a prestigious job after graduating, or contributes to the university in extracurricular activities? As with saying what makes for a good salesperson, the answer may be “some of everything,” and so again the question arises: how much of everything? Or consider another case: a news recommendation algorithm for an online platform. What makes for a “good” recommendation? Is it one that maximizes the user’s time on the platform, or that maximizes ad sales, or that is not “biased” along political lines (and then: which political lines?), or that best satisfies the user’s preferences, or that does not spread misinformation, or that prevents political polarization, or…? How these questions are answered—and how these different considerations are weighed against one another—has profound implications for fairness and other social and ethical concerns.''')
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+ st.markdown('''This point is vividly illustrated by how Google’s search engine handles results with misinformation. When designing a search engine, you want to give “good” search results. What makes for a good search result, though? A common answer is that good search results are relevant. But if a search engine gives search results that are simply relevant—without any other consideration taken into account—the search engine may spread misinformation [(Phillips-Brown, manuscript)](https://philarchive.org/archive/PHIANJ). Consider that as of December 12, 2016, Google’s search engine delivered the following results for the query “did the Holocaust happen?”:''')
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  st.image('./images/google_screenshot.png')
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  st.image('./images/google_screenshot_2.png')
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+ st.markdown('''Target variable definition, then, is not a merely technical matter. The question of what makes for a “good” employee, student, news recommendation or search result (and so on) is fundamentally value-laden. It calls for close attention and transparency [(Fazelpour & Danks, 2021)](https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/phc3.12760). All too often, though, target variables are defined in technical settings without attention to fairness. Further, stakeholders who aren't a part of the technical process—like managers in non-technical roles, or those working in upper management or human resources—either do not understand, or are simply not aware of, the fraught nature of target variable definition.''')
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  st.markdown('''We have developed FairTargetSim (FTS) to help address this issue. The simulator makes the implications of target variable definition explicit—and transparent—and offers a blue-print for those who want to address these effects in practice. FTS uses the case study of hiring; the lessons one can draw from it extend to any domain in which there are no clear-cut answers to the question of target variable definition.''')
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