---
title: "Discrimination by proxy (a real case study)"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/discrimination-by-proxy-a-real-case-study--b8by1m387
source_url: https://www.r-bloggers.com/2024/02/discrimination-by-proxy-a-real-case-study/
type: article
source: "R-bloggers"
published: 2024-02-15T23:47:27.698Z
updated: 2024-05-09T09:28:18.744Z
tags: ["predictive-analytics", "logistic-regression"]
reading_time: 4
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Discrimination by proxy (a real case study)

**[R-bloggers](https://daily.dev/sources/rbloggers)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

The post discusses the potential negative effects of data sharing in insurance, specifically in terms of discrimination. It presents a case study using a dataset without gender information and demonstrates how a gender-blind predictive model still produces discriminatory results.

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