Glossary term
Glossary term
Governance and Compliance
Assuming that what is true for an individual is also true for everyone in that group. The effects of group attribution bias can be exacerbated if a convenience sampling is used for data collection. In a non-representative sample, attributions may be made that don't reflect reality.
See also out-group homogeneity bias and in-group bias. Also, see Fairness: Types of bias in Machine Learning Crash Course for more information.
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A people-analytics team trains its analysts to watch for group attribution bias when interpreting hiring-model outputs across teams.
A research lab includes group attribution bias on its annotator-training curriculum so labelers do not over-generalize from individual cases to groups.
A risk modeling team flags group attribution bias as a review risk because a single bad outcome can wrongly mark a whole segment as risky.
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