Here are the answers to your questions:
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Which of the following is a byproduct of increased production of computation devices?
- Answer: pollution
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What computational innovation was the first digital ledger of its kind for financial transactions?
- Answer: blockchain
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Which of the following could be described as something dug from the earth that is needed for computing resources and computer components?
- Answer: rare earth minerals
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Which of the following is a term for anything created using a computer, such as a video game, software application, a movie, or technological tools?
- Answer: computational artifact
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Which bias best describes a scenario where a developer creates an algorithm for a social media platform which sends the user posts, ads, and articles that cause more unsettling feelings, anger, and upsets the user so the user tends to click on them more creating more ad revenue?
- Answer: negativity bias
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Leah is of Hispanic descent and her family owns a Mexican food restaurant. Their restaurant has a loyalty app that collects demographic information. The app is only suggesting the hotter dishes on the menu to the customers that indicated they were Hispanic, even if the customer had previously ordered a hot dish. She brings it up to her parents, the owners, that this is biased and should be corrected. Which type of bias is Leah advocating against?
- Answer: racial bias
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Why artificial intelligence (AI) systems are not always considered trustworthy?
- Answer: Because they may deliver outcomes that are distorted.
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Why has the gender gap in U.S. technology fields growing?
- Answer: lack of encouragement for women to enter the field
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You have gone on vacation outside your home country and want to share pictures with your friends online using social media. However, you find that the state is blocking all social media. Which barrier to feasibility is this?
- Answer: governmental agencies
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How could we evaluate the efficiency of a computing solution designed for a specific country?
- Answer: We could see if the computing solution works well within that country's existing system.
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A new social media platform has been released. One of the features is that you can upvote and downvote posts. The algorithm for viewing posts makes it so that once you downvote a post you never see another post similar again. Why might this pose an ethical dilemma?
- Answer: It may hide opposing viewpoints, keeping people from seeing them and strengthening confirmation bias.
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What has driven the increased demand for computer-based training (CBT) to help countries and companies grow economically?
- Answer: a lack of technically skilled personnel
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What computing service could affect a person’s ability to get hired for a position?
- Answer: investigation of an individual’s social media accounts
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Which cost-savings measure for businesses merged phone service with internet services?
- Answer: VoIP
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One problem that has moved from the school yard to the digital arena is bullying. Legally, who should be monitoring the sites?
- Answer: the company
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Which of the following is an example of an application whose development and use has impacted personal practices to the point of disruption to industry?
- Answer: music streaming applications
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What has changed how programmers and software engineers interact?
- Answer: collaborative platforms
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What ethical concern related to software development is identified in this scenario? Motion detectors on soap dispensers in airports do not detect darker skin colors and the soap will not dispense.
- Answer: bias
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What is the main reason it is important to be able to predict the impact of computational innovations?
- Answer: to avoid unintentional consequences
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