Yes, no, maybe... depends how it is done.
I've said for awhile, since my own college admission days, that there shouldn't be any affirmative action or special treatment. That all applications should be a number, and then other criteria used, such as GPA from high school added in, and whatever other stuff they want to use, but no gender, no race, simply look at the person as a human being.
Then pick the top people, without even knowing who they are... and offer them admission.
Now everyone who gets in, is admitted strictly by who hard they worked to get to that point. Rather than someone less qualified getting bumped up first.
That could be setup to be automated that way.
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If you want to use GaG’s own bot and it’s ability to choose “fantastic” SO options at times…. That should be enough to show how a human programmed system is still bias.
No. College admissions is too important to trust to computers alone. Just because someone had bad grades in high school and did nothing outside of school DOES NOT MEAN they will mess up in college. Computers are excellent when it comes to deciding things with a standard criteria, but when it comes to college admissions, there are no one size fits all approach as to who will succeed in college. ALL admissions decisions by colleges should be decided case by case, not as a standard.
There are many criteria to consider besides GPA, I am a big believer in making the applicant write an essay, community service and having a cohesive plan for their future. Many students go to college without a clue what they want to do with their lives.
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it will be humans programming those algorithms though...
Perhaps, if you could somehow find a sane programmer. The computer just does what the program tells it to do, and a human would need to write that program.
It would depend on how the computer was programmed to make decisions.
Simples...
I would not trust the system to not get hacked, or at least get accused of getting hacked.
No, but they shouldn't be race based either.
Computers can still be programmed to be wokey.
Lol no
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