Posted on 03/22/2018 12:13:19 PM PDT by blueplum
....Algorithmic tools like the one Arkansas instituted in 2016 are everywhere from health care to law enforcement, altering lives in ways the people affected can usually only glimpse, if they know they’re being used at all. Even if the details of the algorithms are accessible, which isn’t always the case, they’re often beyond the understanding even of the people using them, raising questions about what transparency means in an automated age, and concerns about people’s ability to contest decisions made by machines. {snip}
...Arkansas has said the previous, human-based system was ripe for favoritism and arbitrary decisions. “We knew there would be changes for some individuals because, again, this assessment is much more objective,” a spokesperson told the Arkansas Times after the system was implemented. Aid recipients have pointed to a lack of evidence showing such bias in the state... The Arkansas Department of Human Services, which administers the program, declined to answer any questions for this story, citing a lawsuit unfolding in state court.{snip}
One of the most bizarre cases happened in Idaho, where the state made an attempt, like Arkansas, to institute an algorithm for allocating home care and community integration funds, but built it in-house. The state’s home care program calculated what it would cost to care for severely disabled people, then allotted funds to pay for help. But around 2011, when a new formula was instituted, those funds suddenly dropped precipitously for many people, by as much as 42 percent. When the people whose benefits were cut tried to determine how their benefits were determined, the state declined to disclose the formula it was using, saying that its math qualified as a trade secret...
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to pull another quote from the article, “There’s this immensely complex system around which no standards have been published, so that no one in their agency caught it until we initiated federal litigation and spent hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars to get here today. That’s the problem.”
Death Panels are so much easier when there are no people on the panel.
Don’t imagine this isn’t deliberate.
Open the pod bay doors, Hal......................
You exchange the modern medical model for naturopathic medicine, educate and do it yourself, and actually get better instead of covering up symptoms.
... and yet I’d rather be dealing with an algorithm than this..
“the previous, human-based system was ripe for favoritism and arbitrary decisions.”
I always thought that “algorithm” was a hish-math problem.
;-)
How well does “naturopathic medicine” work to fix shattered bones?
So much for open government.
It's a state government - "trade secret" my ass...
And these are the academics who decide what is best for others. They can claim efficiency and better than human performance but they can’t prove it
If there is fraud address the fraud. It makes no sense to have a machine do box checking that is way more arbitrary and certainly less informational
Perfect
OMG! Hillary was way ahead of the curve!
Time for a class action suit!
More likely a bureaucratic "we like arbitrarily to make up our own sh**" secret.
Algorithms don’t kill people. People kill people.
An algorithm is designed and written by a person with the intention of automating a decision making process. To suggest that it can do anything is anthropomorphism designer to deflect responsibility from its creators and users.
Are you saying it works perfectly or that you like my question?
;-)
was ripe doesn’t mean it happened, tho. And the state hasn’t been able to point at any cases of ‘favoritism and arbitrary decisions.’ It’s like the state saying, it might rain.
Be reasonable.Most people are on forever-pills. Trauma is different, although blending naturopathic medicine can speed recovery.
I am being reasonable. You touted “naturopathic medicine” as the solution to having one’s health care coverage reduced.
Close to 90% of my health care expenses for the last 20 years have been for various orthopedic surgeries. If some “algorithm” had prevented me from, say, having my right shoulder rebuilt, naturopathic medicine would not have been able to help me.
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