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| In the previous sections, we have shown the difficulty of connecting the | ||
| philosophy of distributive justice to the practice of algorithmic fairness. | ||
| Despite assertions in the literature that specific fairness measures relate to | ||
| egalitarianism, we have shown that connections don't hold up under scrutiny. This |
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My memory is failing me -- have I seen this discussion that egalitarianism is not well connected to fairness measures?
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| error is not distributed equally across the population, then we will | ||
| consistently learn false information about a particular group which will lead to | ||
| systemic errors in predicting property rights across groups. Therefore, each | ||
| predictor must be evaluated using equalized odds fairness. |
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ok, but how do you handle different risk distributions? You are going to have to reduce predictive accuracy (in terms of calibration) if you want to ensure equalized odds.
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| an entitlement rule which determines whether or not an individual is | ||
| entitled to a property. | ||
| \item The decision step satisfies a form of counterfactual fairness under | ||
| which the decision step is independent of features not in $F$. |
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Where is counterfactual fairness coming from? You have not discussed it in any detail that I have seen. I is also not obvious to me that you can satisfy all these conditions at once.
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The main, meaty part of the paper this time.
As usual, see the fully rendered PDF here.