Big Idea 3 · Topic 3.16 · Exercise 2
Audit for Bias
25 minutes - 5 simulations - find what was left out and how it biases the result
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Scenario 1 · Foundational
A car company simulates a new bumper in 10,000 virtual crashes at different speeds before building a single physical prototype, to decide which shapes to test for real.
Is a simulation the right tool here? (impractical because...):
One real-world element the model EXCLUDES:
Enrichment - how that same cut is both reasonable and a bias risk:
Scenario 2 · Core
A city simulates evacuation traffic using data collected only on ordinary weekday mornings, then uses it to plan for a hurricane evacuation.
Is a simulation the right tool here? (impractical because...):
One real-world element the model EXCLUDES:
Enrichment - how that same cut is both reasonable and a bias risk:
Scenario 3 · Core
A team decides whether a pocket coin is fair by writing a program that flips a simulated RANDOM coin a million times and reports the fraction of heads.
Is a simulation the right tool here? (impractical because...):
One real-world element the model EXCLUDES:
Enrichment - how that same cut is both reasonable and a bias risk:
Scenario 4 · Challenge
A health agency simulates how a new disease spreads to decide on school closures, using a model based only on how the disease spread in a single dense downtown neighborhood.
Is a simulation the right tool here? (impractical because...):
One real-world element the model EXCLUDES:
Enrichment - how that same cut is both reasonable and a bias risk:
Scenario 5 · Challenge
A streaming app simulates which new shows to greenlight by modeling viewer behavior using only the watch histories of its current subscribers.
Is a simulation the right tool here? (impractical because...):
One real-world element the model EXCLUDES:
Enrichment - how that same cut is both reasonable and a bias risk:
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