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by whyte_mackay 2744 days ago
Adding fairness to your models usually incurs a cost which can be measured. You have to choose between max profit or equal opportunity, you can't have both (do you run over the investors or over the minorities?).

See here a visualization of trade-off's between global accuracy and fairness:

http://research.google.com/bigpicture/attacking-discriminati...