AI & MLRecommendedAIML-RSP-009
Fairness Criteria and Their Incompatibility
Demographic parity, equalised odds, and calibration cannot all hold when base rates differ.
- Difficulty
- 3 / 5
- Importance
- 4 / 5
- Study time
- 1–2 h
- Kind of work
- Mixed
Why it matters
The learner can compute group fairness metrics at a threshold and show that equalising one criterion breaks another when base rates differ.