DAE know that the COMPAS tool flags black defendants as high risk at almost twice the rate of white ones? I saw the ProPublica chart in a training video | Algorithmic Fairness Debate

Rowan Hernandez · 2026-10-10T03:15:03.990003+00:00

I had to sit through a 45 minute safety training at work and the last 10 minutes was about bias in hiring and risk tools, which I did not expect. The slide showed that when they compared the COMPAS scores to what people actually did over the next two years, the false positive rate for black defendants was about 45 percent versus 23 percent for white defendants. My question is, if the tool is scoring two groups differently even when the real outcome is the same, how do you even fix that without throwing the whole thing out?

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DAE know that the COMPAS tool flags black defendants as high risk at almost twice the rate of white ones? I saw the ProPublica chart in a training video | Algorithmic Fairness Debate - Free To Speak