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Legacy preferences are materially beneficial, but counterproductive

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Why do colleges still prefer legacy applicants based on a theoretical framework of the three types of logics found in decision-making strategies: meritocratic, diversity, and material logic?

Mar 1, 2023
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Employees more likely to second-guess interpretable algorithms

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New research shows that people are more likely to trust complicated machine learning models over models that they’re able to understand and troubleshoot.

Jan 12, 2023
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Alumni Research

An Evening of Discovery at the MIT Museum

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Invited guests attended a special event at the new MIT Museum location in Kendall Square in early December.

Dec 21, 2022
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New book chronicles the complicated love story of Harvard Square

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Using the case of Harvard Square, Catherine J. Turco explores the role of street-level markets in our daily lives, why we fall in love with them, and why we so often struggle with changes in them

Dec 6, 2022
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