Fair Prediction with Disparate Impact

Chouldechova, A. (2017). Fair Prediction with Disparate Impact: A Study of Bias in Recidivism Prediction Instruments. Big Data, 5(2), 153-163.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2017

DOI

10.1089/big.2016.0047

Link

https://doi.org/10.1089/big.2016.0047

Cited from

law_governance, mathematics

Cited by

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Primes

• Axiomatic Incompatibility
  • In fairness, the Chouldechova and Kleinberg-Mullainathan-Raghavan results show calibration and the two balance conditions cannot all hold under unequal base rates.

    This sourceShows calibration and the two error-rate balance conditions cannot all hold when base rates differ across groups.

• Equity

  • This sourceShows that calibration and error-rate balance (equal false-positive/false-negative rates) cannot be jointly satisfied when base rates differ across groups — an impossibility result.

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