Bias and Controversy: Beyond the Statistical Deviation

• Main Authors: LAUW, Hady W., LIM, Ee Peng, WANG, Ke
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2006
• Subjects: Data centric; Data models; Modeling; Probabilistic approach; Statistical analysis; Bias; Ground truth; Knowledge discovery; Data mining; Databases and Information Systems; Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/892; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/1891/viewcontent/biasNcontroversy.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In this paper, we investigate how deviation in evaluation activities may reveal bias on the part of reviewers and controversy on the part of evaluated objects. We focus on a 'data-centric approach' where the evaluation data is assumed to represent the ground truth'. The standard stati...