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Why fairness is basically unobservable (dyno-might.github.io)
2 points by dyno-might on Nov 28, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



I feel like a lot of people don’t recognize how incredibly hard it is to check bias from data. The problem is that you have to define “subgroups” in a way that’s inherently arbitrary. This turns out to intersect with Simpson’s paradox in a weird way.


It’s a bit debatable if this is really a “data” problem that could be solved in principle by gathering enough data or more of a “philosophical” problem where we aren’t exactly sure what bias means.




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