25
Jan
By Melanie Lefkowitz |
Mobile phone dating apps that enable users to filter their searches by battle – or depend on algorithms that pair up individuals of the exact same race – reinforce racial divisions and biases, based on a unique paper by Cornell scientists.
The authors said as more and more relationships begin online, dating and hookup apps should discourage discrimination by offering users categories other than race and ethnicity to describe themselves, posting inclusive community messages, and writing algorithms that don’t discriminate.
“Serendipity is lost when anyone have the ability to filter other individuals away,” said Jevan Hutson вЂ16, M.P.S.