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A reflective essay on tech monoculture and the value of 'useless' research, centered around the author's hands-on experience with Folk Computer, an open-source physical computing system that reimagines programming as a collaborative, spatial activity.
This large-scale study of 3.4 million job applicants across 156 employers reveals that algorithmic monocultures in hiring algorithms from a single vendor cause racial disparities and systemic rejections, with 25.87% of Black applicants and 14.74% of Asian applicants adversely impacted.
A research paper analyzing how algorithmic monoculture in hiring—where many employers use the same vendor's screening algorithms—leads to systematic rejection of the same individuals and racial groups, using a dataset of 3 million applicants.