Bias and variance · Question 11 of 12

A recruitment model suggests women less often for technical positions. The training data consists of hiring decisions from the last ten years. Which causes are likely?

2 answers are correct. Hard

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Answer

  • C Features such as hobbies act as proxies for gender
  • E Historical discrimination is contained in the labels

Explanation

If past decisions were biased, the model learns this bias from the labels. In addition, seemingly neutral features can correlate with gender. Bias metrics, for example with SageMaker Clarify, checking features and subgroup analysis reveal this.

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