IELTS Formatı Test 5
Passage
The growing prevalence of algorithmic decision-making in public institutions has raised fundamental questions about transparency, accountability, and fairness. Algorithms are now routinely used to inform decisions in criminal justice — predicting recidivism risk to guide sentencing and parole — as well as in healthcare, education, and social welfare. Advocates emphasise that algorithms, when properly designed, can reduce human bias and inconsistency, processing vast quantities of data far more efficiently than any individual could. However, a mounting body of research has revealed that algorithmic systems can perpetuate and even amplify existing societal biases. If the historical data used to train these systems reflects discriminatory patterns, the algorithms will inevitably reproduce those patterns. A well-known example involves a predictive policing tool that directed law enforcement disproportionately toward minority neighbourhoods — not because residents there committed more crimes, but because those areas had been historically over-policed, generating more data points. The algorithm, unable to distinguish between genuine crime patterns and enforcement bias, treated the skewed data as objective truth. The question of accountability further complicates matters. When an algorithm denies someone parole or rejects a loan application, who bears responsibility — the software developer, the institution that deployed it, or the policymaker who mandated its use? Many algorithmic systems operate as 'black boxes,' their internal logic opaque even to the organisations that rely on them. This lack of transparency makes meaningful oversight and appeal processes extremely difficult. Some scholars have called for 'algorithmic audits' — independent reviews of automated systems to assess their accuracy, fairness, and potential for harm. Others advocate for a 'right to explanation,' requiring institutions to provide clear, understandable justifications for any automated decision that significantly affects an individual's life.
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1 The main purpose of the passage is to ___.
2 According to the passage, advocates of algorithmic decision-making argue that algorithms can ___.
3 The predictive policing example illustrates that ___.
4 The phrase 'black boxes' in the passage refers to systems that ___.
5 The question of accountability is described as 'complicated' because ___.
6 The term 'recidivism' in the passage most likely means ___.
7 An 'algorithmic audit' as described in the passage would involve ___.
8 It can be inferred that the author ___.
9 The 'right to explanation' would require institutions to ___.
10 Which of the following best summarises the passage's argument about data quality?
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