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AIF-C01 Practice Question: A data scientist is using Amazon SageMaker…
A data scientist is using Amazon SageMaker Clarify to analyze a model and discovers that the model treats two different demographic groups differently when they should have similar outcomes. The data scientist wants to quantify this difference using a metric that compares the proportion of positive outcomes for each group. Which metric should be used?
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Demographic parity
Demographic parity measures whether the proportion of positive outcomes is equal across groups. It is also known as statistical parity.
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Option-by-option breakdown
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Disparate impact
Why it's wrong here
Disparate impact is often defined as the ratio of positive outcome rates and is a related concept, but demographic parity is the direct metric for equality of outcome proportions.
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Demographic parity
Why this is correct
Demographic parity (statistical parity) measures the difference in positive outcome rates between groups.
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Equalized odds
Why it's wrong here
Equalized odds considers true positive and false positive rates, not just positive outcome proportions.
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SHAP values
Why it's wrong here
SHAP values are for feature importance, not group fairness metrics.
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