Comment 4: How Is Big Data Influencing The Education Sector?

The education sector is definitely a great place to implement big data, if implemented correctly.

Some of my concerns may include how they determine your optimal career path, optimal job choice and optimal performance. I'll list out a few examples.

Johnny is good at Math, but it makes him unhappy. He is disabled but loves sports. If the predictive model is set up in a way to only measure strengths and not in terms of happiness, he may be told to pursue a career in maths. Should there be an inpt on the 'love' of the child? Maybe he could be a sports team manager, commentator, sport big data analyst or even a job that does not exist yet. Big data is good at predicting if something has happened before or if something exists now, but not very good at things that don't exist yet.

If the 'love' of the child is programmed into the predictive model, here is an example of how that could go wrong: Franky loves playing video games and he believes that he wants to be a video game maker and coder. He does not realise the amount of effort and time it takes to make a video game and that the amount of control of the final product one has is usually very small. He is smart but does not pay attention in school, therefor all of his scores are low. Does the predictive model realise this? Does the model tell him to become a janitor?

Let's say that Steve Jobs, or any other outlier was in this hypothetical educational system, would they still achieve the same success, or be told to pursue it? Their raw data would indicate that they should not have careers as CEOs or be in the technology space as that industry actually did not even exist.

Maybe we should be careful of computers making decisions for us?

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