Data Ethics, Privacy, and Bias · Quiz

Data Analytics: Foundations to Practice · Module Test: Data Ethics, Privacy, and Bias

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How can a variable like zip code introduce bias even when race is deliberately excluded from a dataset?

Zip code has no possible relationship to any other variableZip code can function as a proxy correlated with race due to historical residential segregation patternsZip code is always a perfectly neutral, unbiased variable in every contextBias can only enter through directly and explicitly included sensitive attributes