2016

A statistical framework for fair predictive algorithms

Lum, Kristian, Johndrow, James

Understand

Predictive modeling is increasingly being employed to assist human decision-makers.

  • One purported advantage of replacing human judgment with computer models in high stakes settings-- such as sentencing, hiring, policing, college admissions, and parole decisions-- is the perceived "neutrality" of computers.
  • It is argued that because computer models do not hold personal prejudice, the predictions they produce will be equally free from prejudice.
  • There is growing recognition that employing algorithms does not remove the potential for bias, and can even amplify it, since training data were inevitably generated by a process that is itself biased.

Built on

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Then

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    Original

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