Geographic Bias: The West Dominates

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1. What is the core idea behind "Geographic Bias: The West Dominates"?

   1. AI has a geography problem. Training data over-represents North America and Europe, and it shows in subtle and not-so-subtle ways.
   2. Calibration: train labelers on examples until agreement rises
   3. What remained: 5.85 billion image-text pairs
   4. structured data

2. Which term best describes a foundational idea in "Geographic Bias: The West Dominates"?

   1. Dollar Street
   2. geographic bias
   3. Masakhane
   4. low-resource languages

3. A learner studying Geographic Bias: The West Dominates would need to understand which concept?

   1. geographic bias
   2. Masakhane
   3. Dollar Street
   4. low-resource languages

4. Which of these is directly relevant to Geographic Bias: The West Dominates?

   1. geographic bias
   2. Dollar Street
   3. low-resource languages
   4. Masakhane

5. Which of the following is a key point about Geographic Bias: The West Dominates?

   1. Object detection misidentifies non-Western household items (sari confused for other garments)
   2. Self-driving cars trained on US roads fail on Delhi traffic or unmarked roads
   3. Medical imaging models fail on tropical diseases underrepresented in Western training sets
   4. Content moderation misreads cultural context (dismissing an insult it has never seen)

6. Which of these does NOT belong in a discussion of Geographic Bias: The West Dominates?

   1. Medical imaging models fail on tropical diseases underrepresented in Western training sets
   2. Object detection misidentifies non-Western household items (sari confused for other garments)
   3. Calibration: train labelers on examples until agreement rises
   4. Self-driving cars trained on US roads fail on Delhi traffic or unmarked roads

7. Which statement is accurate regarding Geographic Bias: The West Dominates?

   1. AI4Bharat: tools and data for 22 Indian languages
   2. Common Voice: Mozilla's crowdsourced speech in 100+ languages
   3. Masakhane: community-driven NLP datasets for African languages
   4. WildReceipt: receipts from low-resource languages, not just English

8. Which of these does NOT belong in a discussion of Geographic Bias: The West Dominates?

   1. Masakhane: community-driven NLP datasets for African languages
   2. AI4Bharat: tools and data for 22 Indian languages
   3. Common Voice: Mozilla's crowdsourced speech in 100+ languages
   4. Calibration: train labelers on examples until agreement rises

9. What is the key insight about "Source: Shankar et al., 2017" in the context of Geographic Bias: The West Dominates?

   1. Geographic Dissimilarity Analysis of ImageNet showed that the foundational computer vision dataset drew 45 percent of it…
   2. Calibration: train labelers on examples until agreement rises
   3. What remained: 5.85 billion image-text pairs
   4. structured data

10. What is the key insight about "The funding asymmetry" in the context of Geographic Bias: The West Dominates?

    1. Calibration: train labelers on examples until agreement rises
    2. Western labs have billion-dollar compute budgets. Most inclusive-data projects are run by researchers with orders of mag…
    3. What remained: 5.85 billion image-text pairs
    4. structured data

11. What is the recommended tip about "Ground your practice in fundamentals" in the context of Geographic Bias: The West Dominates?

    1. Calibration: train labelers on examples until agreement rises
    2. What remained: 5.85 billion image-text pairs
    3. Every AI capability has an underlying mechanism. Understanding that mechanism tells you where it'll fail — which is more…
    4. structured data

12. Which statement accurately describes an aspect of Geographic Bias: The West Dominates?

    1. Calibration: train labelers on examples until agreement rises
    2. What remained: 5.85 billion image-text pairs
    3. structured data
    4. Ask an image model for a photo of a wedding and you will most likely get a white couple, Western dress, a Christian-style ceremony.

13. What does working with Geographic Bias: The West Dominates typically involve?

    1. Gapminder's Dollar Street photographed thousands of homes across 50+ countries and organized them by household income.
    2. Calibration: train labelers on examples until agreement rises
    3. What remained: 5.85 billion image-text pairs
    4. structured data

14. Which of the following is true about Geographic Bias: The West Dominates?

    1. Calibration: train labelers on examples until agreement rises
    2. The big idea: AI trained on Western data inherits Western assumptions about what normal looks like.
    3. What remained: 5.85 billion image-text pairs
    4. structured data

15. Which best describes the scope of "Geographic Bias: The West Dominates"?

    1. It is unrelated to foundations workflows
    2. It applies only to the opposite beginner tier
    3. It focuses on AI has a geography problem. Training data over-represents North America and Europe, and it shows in
    4. It was deprecated in 2024 and no longer relevant