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by taurine 2925 days ago
People with the exact same FICO score have different default rates, if you manage to bin them by race: Asians > Caucasians > Latin > Black.

> We do get a some variables even if we are not allowed to use them.

Cool, so you had access to an ethnicity variable to measure its proxy power and significance? I feel this is important and very rare outside of Europe.