Table 3.

Motives for algorithm aversion

MotivesCitation
Desire for perfect predictions

  • Dawes (1979);

  • Einhorn (1986);

  • Highhouse (2008) 

Inability of algorithms to learn

  • Dawes (1979) 

Ability of human predictors to improve through experience

  • Highhouse (2008) 

Notion that algorithms are dehumanizing

  • Dawes (1979);

  • Grove and Meehl (1996) 

Concerns about the ethics of relying on algorithms to make important decisions

  • Dawes (1979) 

Fact that algorithms cannot adequately consider individual goals

  • Grove and Meehl (1996) 

Inability of algorithms to incorporate qualitative data

  • Grove and Meehl (1996) 

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