Question 1
An Azure AI loan-screening pilot approves equally qualified applicants from two age cohorts at different rates. The team reports only aggregate accuracy. What should be measured before rollout?
Explanation
Correct Answer
False negatives identify qualified people whom the classifier denies; false positives reveal incorrectly approved applicants. Comparing both on properly defined comparable age cohorts exposes the error asymmetry hidden by aggregate accuracy and supplies a basis for remediation before rollout.
Incorrect Answers
Removing the explicit age column does not remove age information carried by correlated work history, address or other variables. The pilot has already observed unequal approvals among equally qualified applicants, so the team still needs a comparable-cohort error analysis.
The largest cohort can dominate a weighted accuracy total and conceal harm to the smaller cohort. Checking only that group would fail to measure whether qualified applicants elsewhere are being denied by the same classifier.
Equal or unequal raw approval rates alone do not establish whether similarly qualified people received correct predictions. Approval prevalence can differ for legitimate reasons; observed false-negative and false-positive errors are needed to examine the unfair failure in this pilot.



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