You promise "We won’t be lobbing softballs" but what could be softer than an interview about AFST that whitewashes the mountain of evidence of bias. There’s the entire chapter devoted to the built-in bias of AFST in Virginia Eubanks' book, Automating Inequality, the Associated Press stories exposing bias, and the small detail that, according to AP, the Biden Justice Department was investigating whether AFST is biased against the disabled. But I guess none of that is true because the people behind the algorithm *say* it’s not true? Anyone interested in what this "no softballs" interview left out will find it here: https://bigdataiswatching.blogspot.com/
You are predicting something that has no bearing on safety from maltreatment: Nationwide about half of the kids removed from their families into foster care has no substantiated maltreatment prior to the removal.
A long time ago in the 1980's, I was a financial administrator in NH's state government responsible for state child welfare. I worked with a number of old-line MSW-trained child abuse social workers. The missing element in the analysis is that there is little that substitutes for a good and dedicated social worker that properly plans out the course of developing with the judge the best choice amongst a bunch of bad choices for the child. One supervisor that I worked with told me that he retained an attorney for his work. I was young and asked why because the Attorney General would back him in his work. He told this naif that while the AG would protect the interests of the State of NH, he might not protect him, and his actions were for the benefit of the child and not the state.
You promise "We won’t be lobbing softballs" but what could be softer than an interview about AFST that whitewashes the mountain of evidence of bias. There’s the entire chapter devoted to the built-in bias of AFST in Virginia Eubanks' book, Automating Inequality, the Associated Press stories exposing bias, and the small detail that, according to AP, the Biden Justice Department was investigating whether AFST is biased against the disabled. But I guess none of that is true because the people behind the algorithm *say* it’s not true? Anyone interested in what this "no softballs" interview left out will find it here: https://bigdataiswatching.blogspot.com/
Richard Wexler
National Coalition for Child Protection Reform
www.nccpr.org
You are predicting something that has no bearing on safety from maltreatment: Nationwide about half of the kids removed from their families into foster care has no substantiated maltreatment prior to the removal.
Wonderful interview
A long time ago in the 1980's, I was a financial administrator in NH's state government responsible for state child welfare. I worked with a number of old-line MSW-trained child abuse social workers. The missing element in the analysis is that there is little that substitutes for a good and dedicated social worker that properly plans out the course of developing with the judge the best choice amongst a bunch of bad choices for the child. One supervisor that I worked with told me that he retained an attorney for his work. I was young and asked why because the Attorney General would back him in his work. He told this naif that while the AG would protect the interests of the State of NH, he might not protect him, and his actions were for the benefit of the child and not the state.