➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ:
US: When the Good Guys Ride into the Sunset, Leaving Their Algorithms Behind
Chronicle of Social Change – November 28, 2016
The push to embrace “predictive analytics,” an unreliable, racially biased method in which algorithms “inform” the decisions of caseworkers – decisions such as when to tear apart a family – is led largely by the same people who deny the very existence of a racial bias problem in child welfare, want to see far more families torn apart, or both. They seem to be willfully blind to the enormous inherent risks of unnecessary foster care placement, including the risk of abuse or even death in foster care.
https://chronicleofsocialchange.org/blogger-co-op/good-guys-ride-sunset-leaving-algorithms-behind/23040