Question: The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, and 4) given in this question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper order for the sentences and key in this sequence of four numbers as your answer.
Impartiality and objectivity are fiendishly difficult concepts that can cause all sorts of injustices even if transparently implemented.
It encourages us into bubbles of people we know and like, while blinding us to different perspectives, but the deeper problem of ‘transparency’ lies in the words “…and much more”.
Twitter’s website says that “tweets you are likely to care about most will show up first in your timeline…based on accounts you interact with most, tweets you engage with, and much more.”
We are only told some of the basic principles, and we can’t see the algorithm itself, making it hard for citizens to analyse the system sensibly or fairly or be convinced of its impartiality and objectivity.
Statement 1 is the first sentence of the paragraph as it mentions ‘impartiality’ and ‘objectivity’ which are then discussed in the paragraph by giving the example of Twitter. Thus it should be followed by statement 3. Since statement 3 states that tweets we are likely to care about will show first, it encourages us to limit ourselves to people we know or like while we are unable to know anything about different perspective. Thus statement 2 follows statement 3. Statement 4 is the last sentence of the paragraph as it states how citizens are unable to analyse the impartiality or the objectivity of the algorithm used by Twitter.