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Coffee Meets Bagel users

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Incident 2802 Report
Coffee Meets Bagel’s Algorithm Reported by Users Disproportionately Showing Them Matches of Their Own Ethnicities Despite Selecting “No Preference”

2013-07-30

Users selecting “no preference” were shown by Coffee Meets Bagels’s matching algorithm more potential matches with the same ethnicity, which was acknowledged and justified by its founder as a means to maximize connection rate without sufficient user information.

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Coffee Meets Bagel

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 280
    2 Reports

    Coffee Meets Bagel’s Algorithm Reported by Users Disproportionately Showing Them Matches of Their Own Ethnicities Despite Selecting “No Preference”

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Coffee Meets Bagel users having no ethnicity preference

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 280
    2 Reports

    Coffee Meets Bagel’s Algorithm Reported by Users Disproportionately Showing Them Matches of Their Own Ethnicities Despite Selecting “No Preference”

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