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System DesignVery Hard· Fairness· Ranking· Trade-offs

Leadership wants demographic parity across viewpoints i...

Demographic parity and aggregate credibility are competing terms in the ranking objective. Mathematically, increasing the weight of the parity constraint requires a reduction in the aggregate credibility score. The resolution is to quantify the trade-off and decide on an acceptable cost rather than attempting to avoid the trade-off entirely.

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