Equivant
The company that develops the COMPAS recidivism risk assessment system, formerly known as Northpointe.
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COMPAS is a recidivism risk assessment tool developed by the company Equivant, and has been used by courts in multiple U.S. states to assist in bail, sentencing and parole decisions.
The fairness standard ProPublica used is "group balance in predictive error rates," while the company that developed COMPAS countered that the system is calibrated on "predictive accuracy" for both groups, i.e., the actual recidivism rate corresponding to a high risk score is roughly the same across races.
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COMPAS is a recidivism risk assessment tool developed by the company Equivant, and has been used by courts in multiple U.S. states to assist in bail, sentencing and parole decisions.
50%UnverifiedThe fairness standard ProPublica used is "group balance in predictive error rates," while the company that developed COMPAS countered that the system is calibrated on "predictive accuracy" for both groups, i.e., the actual recidivism rate corresponding to a high risk score is roughly the same across races.
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