Analysis Questions (The entire response must be within 500-800 words)

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Overview

Number and respond to all prompt questions below. Support your reasoning using only evidence from the relevant materials provided with in text citations.
Don't forget to write your total word count at the end!
Why does Cathy O'Neil say the US News college ranking system is a WMD? Explain at least three reasons from the reading in your response. Cite one passage from the reading to support your reasoning.
From the DJ Pangburn article, what is the strongest argument for why admission algorithms produce unfair outcomes? Cite one passage from the reading to support your reasoning.
From the DJ Pangburn article, what is the strongest argument for why admission algorithms produce fair outcomes? Be sure to explain how admission software address biases that emerge "situationally," which seem to be a problem that every admission committee faces. Cite one passage from the reading to support your reasoning.
Identify one proxy variable that would be unfair (and therefore not useful) for admissions decisions, and explain why this is unfair and not useful. Explain how using this proxy contributes to one of the three biases that we discussed: interaction bias, latent bias, or selection bias.
Identify one proxy variable that could potentially be useful and fair to use in making college admissions decisions, and explain why this is fair and useful.

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