# Data Bias According to Bipol: Men are Naturally Right and It is the Role of Women to Follow Their Lead

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04838 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.04838/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 31 of its 68 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 7 Apr 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 31)

- [GLUE: A Multi-Task Benchmark and Analysis Platform for Natural Language Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1804.07461/) (2018)
- [SQuAD: 100,000+ Questions for Machine Comprehension of Text](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1606.05250/) (2016)
- [A Broad-Coverage Challenge Corpus for Sentence Understanding through Inference](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1704.05426/) (2017)
- [A Survey on Bias and Fairness in Machine Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1908.09635/) (2019)
- [mT5: A massively multilingual pre-trained text-to-text transformer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2010.11934/) (2020)
- [SuperGLUE: A Stickier Benchmark for General-Purpose Language Understanding Systems](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1905.00537/) (2019)
- [Man is to Computer Programmer as Woman is to Homemaker? Debiasing Word Embeddings](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1607.06520/) (2016)
- [SemEval-2017 Task 1: Semantic Textual Similarity - Multilingual and Cross-lingual Focused Evaluation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1708.00055/) (2017)
- [Neural Network Acceptability Judgments](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1805.12471/) (2018)
- [StereoSet: Measuring stereotypical bias in pretrained language models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2004.09456/) (2020)
- [Semantics derived automatically from language corpora contain human-like biases](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1608.07187/) (2016)
- [CrowS-Pairs: A Challenge Dataset for Measuring Social Biases in Masked Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2010.00133/) (2020)
- [Gender Bias in Coreference Resolution: Evaluation and Debiasing Methods](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1804.06876/) (2018)
- [Gender Bias in Coreference Resolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1804.09301/) (2018)
- [On Measuring Social Biases in Sentence Encoders](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1903.10561/) (2019)
- [Social Bias Frames: Reasoning about Social and Power Implications of Language](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1911.03891/) (2019)
- [AI Fairness 360: An Extensible Toolkit for Detecting, Understanding, and Mitigating Unwanted Algorithmic Bias](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1810.01943/) (2018)
- [Lipstick on a Pig: Debiasing Methods Cover up Systematic Gender Biases in Word Embeddings But do not Remove Them](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1903.03862/) (2019)
- [ReCoRD: Bridging the Gap between Human and Machine Commonsense Reading Comprehension](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1810.12885/) (2018)
- [Saving Face: Investigating the Ethical Concerns of Facial Recognition Auditing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2001.00964/) (2020)
- [Gender in Danger? Evaluating Speech Translation Technology on the MuST-SHE Corpus](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2006.05754/) (2020)
- [Entropy-based Attention Regularization Frees Unintended Bias Mitigation from Lists](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.09192/) (2022)
- [Multilingual Twitter Corpus and Baselines for Evaluating Demographic Bias in Hate Speech Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2002.10361/) (2020)
- [GENder-IT: An Annotated English-Italian Parallel Challenge Set for Cross-Linguistic Natural Gender Phenomena](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2108.02854/) (2021)
- [Evaluating Bias In Dutch Word Embeddings](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2011.00244/) (2020)
- [Using Word Embeddings to Examine Gender Bias in Dutch Newspapers, 1950-1990](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1907.08922/) (2019)
- [How to Split: the Effect of Word Segmentation on Gender Bias in Speech Translation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2105.13782/) (2021)
- [Grammatical gender associations outweigh topical gender bias in crosslinguistic word embeddings](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2005.08864/) (2020)
- [T5 for Hate Speech, Augmented Data and Ensemble](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.05480/) (2022)
- [Bipol: A Novel Multi-Axes Bias Evaluation Metric with Explainability for NLP](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2304.04029/) (2023)

## Built on by (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [Fairness and Bias in Multimodal AI: A Survey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2406.19097/) (2024)
- [Dutch CrowS-Pairs: Adapting a Challenge Dataset for Measuring Social Biases in Language Models for Dutch](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.16442/) (2025)

## Abstract (arXiv)

We introduce new large labeled datasets on bias in 3 languages and show in experiments that bias exists in all 10 datasets of 5 languages evaluated, including benchmark datasets on the English GLUE/SuperGLUE leaderboards. The 3 new languages give a total of almost 6 million labeled samples and we benchmark on these datasets using SotA multilingual pretrained models: mT5 and mBERT. The challenge of social bias, based on prejudice, is ubiquitous, as recent events with AI and large language models (LLMs) have shown. Motivated by this challenge, we set out to estimate bias in multiple datasets. We compare some recent bias metrics and use bipol, which has explainability in the metric. We also confirm the unverified assumption that bias exists in toxic comments by randomly sampling 200 samples from a toxic dataset population using the confidence level of 95% and error margin of 7%. Thirty gold samples were randomly distributed in the 200 samples to secure the quality of the annotation. Our findings confirm that many of the datasets have male bias (prejudice against women), besides other types of bias. We publicly release our new datasets, lexica, models, and codes.
