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The idea
To compare prediction accuracy across groups, the authors trained models again on samples with equal numbers from each group when the training data had more people from one group. They then tested accuracy separately for each group.
Place in the reasoning
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Describes balancing training samples to compare group accuracy, while cautioning that this does not remove every possible source of bias.
Good overall predictions can hide worse results for some groups
The described method concerns how the study checked for group accuracy differences; it does not prove that balancing eliminates bias.
Different prediction checks reveal different limits
The method clarifies the scope of accuracy comparisons and cautions against treating the check as a complete reliability guarantee.
What this means and why it matters
What this means
The authors compared predictions with participants’ reported choices within each group. When one group was larger in the training data, they trained the model again using a smaller sample with equal group sizes.
Why it matters
This makes group-by-group accuracy comparisons possible, while leaving open whether results would hold with other samples or ways of balancing.
Conditions & assumptions
Source coverage: Full readable text of the retrieved 37-page research draft, including references and appendices. Figures are not independently interpreted. For example, their method matched the number of people from two groups by randomly selecting people from the larger group. This describes how they checked for differences, but does not establish that making group sizes equal removes every possible source of bias.
Questions this connects to
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