The outcome was that more than one-third of results in England (35.6%) were downgraded by one grade from the mark issued by teachers. This meant that a lot of pupils didn’t get the grades they needed to get to their university of choice. More ominously, the proportion of private-school students receiving A and A* was more than twice as high as the proportion of students at comprehensive schools, underscoring the gross inequality in the British education system.

Algorithms and Machine Learning are becoming highly prevalent through every aspect of society. They are very much in Vogue and big tech appears to have free reign to allow them to make determinations about us and trial their use. The UK recently saw the one of the first actual real revolts against algorithms; when the government had to do huge U turn on grades that had been decided by them in the absence of exams due to COVID. As a medic I loved this articles' comparison between algorithms and new medications and how there appears to be little thought on the unexpected harms of these new decision makers. Maybe we should be running clinical trials before these beasts are released into the wild? Of course, for your non-algorithmic bliss there's always Relevant 😉

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>"A mesmerising, unaccountable kind of algorithm – machine learning – is blinding governments to the technology’s often disastrous flaws"

>"A mesmerising, unaccountable kind of algorithm – machine learning – is blinding governments to the technology’s often disastrous flaws"

It's insane

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