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add example of misleading representation
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deon/assets/examples_of_ethical_issues.yml

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- text: Misleading chart shown at Planned Parenthood hearing distorts actual trends of abortions vs. cancer screenings and preventative services.
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url: https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/oct/01/jason-chaffetz/chart-shown-planned-parenthood-hearing-misleading-/
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- text: Georgia Dept. of Health graph of COVID-19 cases falsely suggests a steeper decline when dates are ordered by total cases rather than chronologically
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url: https://www.vox.com/covid-19-coronavirus-us-response-trump/2020/5/18/21262265/georgia-covid-19-cases-declining-reopening
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- text: Strava heatmap of exercise routes reveals sensitive information on military bases and spy outposts.

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| <center>**Analysis**</center>
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**C.1 Missing perspectives**: Have we sought to address blindspots in the analysis through engagement with relevant stakeholders (e.g., checking assumptions and discussing implications with affected communities and subject matter experts)? | <ul><li>[When Apple's HealthKit came out in 2014, women couldn't track menstruation.](https://www.theverge.com/2014/9/25/6844021/apple-promised-an-expansive-health-app-so-why-cant-i-track)</li></ul>
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**C.2 Dataset bias**: Have we examined the data for possible sources of bias and taken steps to mitigate or address these biases (e.g., stereotype perpetuation, confirmation bias, imbalanced classes, or omitted confounding variables)? | <ul><li>[A widely used commercial algorithm in the healthcare industry underestimates the care needs of black patients, assigning them lower risk scores compared to equivalently sick white patients.](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03228-6)</li><li>[-- Related academic study.](https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6464/447)</li><li>[word2vec, trained on Google News corpus, reinforces gender stereotypes.](https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602025/how-vector-space-mathematics-reveals-the-hidden-sexism-in-language/)</li><li>[-- Related academic study.](https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.06520)</li><li>[Women are more likely to be shown lower-paying jobs than men in Google ads.](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/08/women-less-likely-ads-high-paid-jobs-google-study)</li></ul>
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**C.3 Honest representation**: Are our visualizations, summary statistics, and reports designed to honestly represent the underlying data? | <ul><li>[Misleading chart shown at Planned Parenthood hearing distorts actual trends of abortions vs. cancer screenings and preventative services.](https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/oct/01/jason-chaffetz/chart-shown-planned-parenthood-hearing-misleading-/)</li></ul>
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**C.3 Honest representation**: Are our visualizations, summary statistics, and reports designed to honestly represent the underlying data? | <ul><li>[Misleading chart shown at Planned Parenthood hearing distorts actual trends of abortions vs. cancer screenings and preventative services.](https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/oct/01/jason-chaffetz/chart-shown-planned-parenthood-hearing-misleading-/)</li><li>[Georgia Dept. of Health graph of COVID-19 cases falsely suggests a steeper decline when dates are ordered by total cases rather than chronologically](https://www.vox.com/covid-19-coronavirus-us-response-trump/2020/5/18/21262265/georgia-covid-19-cases-declining-reopening)</li></ul>
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**C.4 Privacy in analysis**: Have we ensured that data with PII are not used or displayed unless necessary for the analysis? | <ul><li>[Strava heatmap of exercise routes reveals sensitive information on military bases and spy outposts.](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/28/fitness-tracking-app-gives-away-location-of-secret-us-army-bases)</li></ul>
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**C.5 Auditability**: Is the process of generating the analysis well documented and reproducible if we discover issues in the future? | <ul><li>[Excel error in well-known economics paper undermines justification of austerity measures.](https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22223190)</li></ul>
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| <center>**Modeling**</center>

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