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The impossibility of "fairness": a generalized impossibility result for decisions — mentioned by olddustytrail

Wed, 15 Mar 2023 20:41:15 GMT

Can you link to the paper you read? My search only revealed https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.01195 which has no mention whatsoever of the old fashioned idea of "races".

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Wed, 06 Jul 2022 13:01:04 GMT

The impossibility of “fairness”:a generalized impossibility result for decisions

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The impossibility of "fairness": a generalized impossibility result for decisions — mentioned by josephcsible

Thu, 17 Feb 2022 08:00:35 GMT

But unless the system is either completely perfect (i.e., its predictions are never wrong), or completely worthless because it ignores all input data and always gives the same risk score, then there will always be some measurement that says it's discriminatory on protected classes: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.01195

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Sat, 28 Aug 2021 15:07:32 GMT

The impossibility of fairness: a generalized impossibility result for decisions

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The impossibility of "fairness": a generalized impossibility result for decisions — mentioned by bobcostas55

Sun, 23 Feb 2020 13:59:58 GMT

Anyone looking into this stuff needs to read "The impossibility of “fairness”: a generalized impossibility result for decisions"[0] One type of fairness is always trading off against another, and any presentation suggesting you can just magically increase the fairness of your classifier is straight-up lying. [0]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1707.01195.pdf

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The impossibility of "fairness": a generalized impossibility result for decisions — mentioned by bobcostas55

Thu, 07 Jun 2018 19:42:56 GMT

>Avoid creating or reinforcing unfair bias. I recommend _The impossibility of “fairness”: a generalized impossibility result for decisions_[0] and _Inherent Trade-Offs in the Fair Determination of Risk Scores_[1] [0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1707.01195.pdf [1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.05807v1.pdf

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