Equality of Opportunity

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The probability of a person in positive class being assigned to a positive outcome should be equal for both protected and unprotected group members. In other words, the protected and unprotected groups should have equal true positive rates.

MWEA Survey on Bias and Fairness in Machine Learning

Senses

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Equality of Opportunity in Supervised Learning

(Equal opportunity). We say that a binary predictor bY satisfies equal opportunity with respect to A and Y if Pr{bY = 1 | A = 0; Y = 1} = Pr{bY = 1 | A = 1; Y = 1}.

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Variants

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plural: Equality of Opportunities
possessive: Equality of Opportunity's
pluralpossessive: Equality of Opportunities'

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