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Approaches to measuring fairness
We introduce two concepts:
Goal: Fairness for legally protected groups (age, sex, disability, ethnic origin,...)
● Sensitive attribute A:
A describes which group an individual belongs to, either 0 or 1.
● Decision D:
An ADM produces a decision D, and it can be 👎 or 👍.
Decisions should fit the true outcome Y, (also 👎 or 👍).
Example - Credit risk assessment
Individual with characteristics X=X, A=1 (female).
She receives the decision D = 👎 but would have paid back a loan (Y = 👍).
Our system made an error!