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Re:Survey: iPhone owners spend more, have higher incomes tha... by teruakohatu on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @04:48PM (#31745859)
Everything is corrolated [1]. So putting that aside, context matters.

Contextually there is no reason to suspect that a phone operating system has anything to do with anyone's ability to repay a loan, anymore than the color of their car or their eye color.

Income and existing debt does, obviously.

What you don't want, and what is not legal, is denying a loan because of nonsense predictors that happen to be very strongly corrolated to race and very weakly corrolated to the ability to repay a loan.

If color of car, or operating system, is a strong predictor then the model is probably being overtrained on the training data and probably wouldn't generalise well in the real world.

[1] https://www.gwern.net/Everything

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Re:Survey: iPhone owners spend more, have higher incomes tha... by spoonjim on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @05:07PM (#31746110)
I don't know, I think that people with red cars and people with white cars might have different loan repayment behaviors and I think the model should be allowed to try to figure out.
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