People Analytics Quiz

What is the main goal of People Analytics?

• To eliminate all human decision-making

• To replace HR professionals with machines

• To use data to inform people-related decisions

• To monitor employee behavior in real time

According to Professor Goldberg, what are machines especially good at?

• Understanding emotions

• Making moral decisions

• Predicting based on historical data

• Managing teams

What should you always ask when presented with a predictive algorithm?

• How expensive is it?

• Does it predict an outcome that matters to me?

• Was it built using AI?

• Is it better than Excel?

How can algorithms help improve ethical decision-making?

• By ignoring human input

• By automating hiring and firing

• By reducing human biases

• By removing all emotions from decisions

What is the most important thing to remember when using machine learning for people decisions?

• Let the machine decide

• Focus on speed over accuracy

• You are still morally responsible for the decision

• Algorithms are always fair

People Analytics requires everyone to become expert data analysts.

• True

• False

Algorithms can predict human behavior with perfect accuracy.

• True

• False

Professor Goldberg believes it's dangerous to hide behind machines when making people-related decisions.

• True

• False

Machines are intelligent in the same way humans are.

• True

• False

Ethical decisions are often also better managerial decisions.

• True

• False