Book: SE@Google Ch: Ch8 Engineering for Equity

[yucheng11122017]

Book: SE@Google Chapter: Ch8 Engineering for Equity

Summary:

• Idea is that bias is inherent within engineers and this is naturally brought over to the products that are built
• As a result, the products often advantage certain groups over others (for example, machine learning algorithms not being able to detect faces of darker colors)
• Hence, measures need to be taken to combat this bias and promote equity, such as building an equitable workforce, engaging a wide variety of users, and actively measuring equity.
• One way I think this chapter relates to my project, Markbind, is that perhaps we should relook at our accessibility components. For example, how easy is it for the visually impaired to utilize a website made from Markbind?

[kaixin-hc]

love this reflection! and glad that you took the initiative to also flag an issue regarding it: https://github.com/MarkBind/markbind/issues/2410