 have been wrong about 40 percent of the time, with black people falsely rated as future crime risks twice as often as white people. The study, by ProPublica, examines how algorithms were used in sentencing. O'Neill tells how low income and immigrant students are steered towards for-profit colleges that mores sophisticated students would avoid, and desperate debtors are directed toward payday loans. People seeking low income jobs may never know they've been rejected because of an answer they gave on a personality test.
Many of theses algorithms are proprietary, so those who use them and those who may suffer from them don't know what information was used to create them. O'Neill suggests a Hippocratic Oath for data scientists. James Vacca, a New York City Councilman from the Bronx, recently introduced bill that would require the city to publicly release the information contained in algorithms used for government decision making. It could turn out to be a very pioneering piece of legislation.
Another exciting event:
Leading Organizations to Health - Begins in November
Organizational change initiatives succeed or fail based on the quality of relationships. Relational problems have been cited as the single biggest obstacle to quality improvement projects. Yet most leaders of change projects are not well-prepared for the relational dimension of their work; their training has typically focused on technical analytic tools and linear, control oriented mindsets. As a result, performance suffers.
To address this gap we created Leading Organizations to Health, a 7-month institute on leading organizational change for senior and mid-level healthcare leaders. LOH offers you the chance to:
- learn new complexity-inspired ways to think about organizations and how they change,
- enhance your process-awareness and facilitation skills, and
- deepen the authentic presence and personal meaning that ground your work and give you the courage to step forward as a leader.
LOH consists of 4 long weekends (Thursday evening through Sunday noon) at a Rocky Mountain ranch and monthly small group peer-coaching video-conferences in between sessions. The next cohort begins in November 2017. For more information, please visit www.lohweb.com or contact the faculty members: Tony Suchman (firstname.lastname@example.org) and Diane Rawlins (email@example.com). We hope you'll join us!
The American Academy on Communications in Healthcare and Plexus Institute are co-sponsors.