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Re:On the Rise of FinTechs – Credit Scoring Using Digital Fo... by psandersen on Saturday June 23, 2018 @01:51AM (#17379752)
Its also possible that if you have good data on a person's financial situation and behaviour (and more questionable that of their social circle) that race stops being a relevant signal in the algorithm as it was only ever a proxy for a person's finances and job security.

If there was substantial remaining bias you could probably measure the impact of race on credit while training the model but remove it or consider everyone the same race when scoring customers.

(Disclaimer: I do ML for a consumer credit company, not in the USA).

Re:On the Rise of FinTechs – Credit Scoring Using Digital Fo... by polskibus on Saturday June 23, 2018 @03:04AM (#17379950)
How would you prove that beyond doubt, today and in the future?
Re:On the Rise of FinTechs – Credit Scoring Using Digital Fo... by Hydraulix989 on Saturday June 23, 2018 @04:25AM (#17380185)
You're asking how to data science.

In the past: Measuring correlations among historical data

In the future: Machine learning (fitting a model to the historical data and hoping that it holds)

Proving "beyond doubt" is impossible because for that you need an oracle.