Examples

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   For example, when building a classification model to identify wedding photos, an engineer may use the presence of a white dress in a photo as a feature. However, white dresses have been customary only during certain eras and in certain cultures.

2. 2.

   See also confirmation bias.

Real-world uses

Created for this library

1. 1.

   A hiring-tech vendor warns customers that implicit bias in past hiring data can be encoded in any model trained on it without mitigation.

2. 2.

   A bank's credit team trains analysts to recognize implicit bias when interpreting model outputs they want to act on.

3. 3.

   A research lab adds implicit bias to its annotator training curriculum to keep labelers consistent across sensitive cases.