Comments on: Why would we second-guess the algorithm? https://sorrywatch.com/why-would-we-second-guess-the-algorithm/ Analyzing apologies in the news, media, history and literature. We condemn the bad and exalt the good. Mon, 28 Dec 2020 09:34:10 +0000 hourly 1 By: Kenneth H. Ryesky https://sorrywatch.com/why-would-we-second-guess-the-algorithm/#comment-215768 Mon, 28 Dec 2020 09:34:10 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=10281#comment-215768 Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity!

]]> By: bratschegirl https://sorrywatch.com/why-would-we-second-guess-the-algorithm/#comment-215743 Fri, 25 Dec 2020 00:20:53 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=10281#comment-215743 Stanford medicine seems to worship algorithms. My spouse (70+, male) sees a cardiologist in the Stanford system. The cardio practice uses an algorithm to determine who should and should not be on statins. This algorithm is constructed in such a way that given his age, there is literally no combination of other information that can be fed in that won’t produce a recommendation that the patient should go on a statin. Excellent cholesterol and blood pressure numbers? Doesn’t matter, the almighty algo still says “take a statin.”

]]> By: sumac https://sorrywatch.com/why-would-we-second-guess-the-algorithm/#comment-215729 Wed, 23 Dec 2020 23:09:52 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=10281#comment-215729 In reply to paulina borsook.

Oh yes. Here’s a San Francisco Chronicle article where they actually got to see the algorithm, and compare it with, say, that of UCSF:

https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/How-Stanford-s-vaccine-algorithm-caused-a-major-15824918.php

They quote Ziad Obermeyer, who wrote about this for MIT Technology Review, as saying “…the goal of algorithms should be to make… prioritization fair, transparent, and defensible. No one should hide behind ‘an error in the algorithm,’ as if the algorithm as a mind of its own, when they literally designed the algorithm.”

]]> By: paulina borsook https://sorrywatch.com/why-would-we-second-guess-the-algorithm/#comment-215723 Tue, 22 Dec 2020 20:16:02 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=10281#comment-215723 has there been any followon to this?

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