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The Misuse of AUC: What High Impact Risk Assessment Gets Wrong
Kweku Kwegyir-Aggrey, Marissa Gerchick, Malika Mohan +2
When determining which machine learning model best performs some high impact risk assessment task, practitioners commonly use the Area under the Curve (AUC) to defend and validate…
Flipping the Script on Criminal Justice Risk Assessment: An actuarial model for assessing the risk the federal sentencing system poses to defendants
Mikaela Meyer, Aaron Horowitz, Erica Marshall +1
In the criminal justice system, algorithmic risk assessment instruments are used to predict the risk a defendant poses to society; examples include the risk of recidivating or the…
It's COMPASlicated: The Messy Relationship between RAI Datasets and Algorithmic Fairness Benchmarks
Michelle Bao, Angela Zhou, Samantha Zottola +5
Risk assessment instrument (RAI) datasets, particularly ProPublica's COMPAS dataset, are commonly used in algorithmic fairness papers due to benchmarking practices of comparing alg…