Bad algorithms

According to the article “I Know Some Algorithms Are Biased—Because I Created One” in the Scientific American journal posted by Nicolas T. Young on January 31, 2020, some algorithms, which are present almost everywhere in our lives, aren’t as precise as they should be. After learning that some algorithms gave a lower credit limit to women than to otherwise identical men, the author of the article decided to run some tests. He quickly realized that the information used by the algorithm may disadvantage some people for reasons out of their control. Since I am in computer science, programming…