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I agree with the overall message of the article but I’ve never met anyone who said that math is by default unbiased. Is that misconception common?
Generally people believe that math, numbers, and data, cannot have implicit bias, yeah. But algorithms? I think it's common knowledge that algorithms are bias and bad across any semi-knowledgeable community.
That is sadly very much not the case. As in, there are loads of people, including in "semi-knowledgeable communities", that do not understand that algorithms are designed by people, for a specific purpose, and thus replicate their biases — even if their designers try not to make that happen.