Madison Coots @madisoncoots.com · Dec 5

Yet, despite this miscalibration, clinical decisions (e.g., screening or treatment recommendations) differ between race-aware and race-unaware models for only a small fraction of individuals (~5%). The individuals whose decisions flip are those closest to the decision threshold.

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Madison Coots · Dec 5

Further, these individuals also experience modest gains in utility from the use of a race-aware model. This is because, in shared decision-making contexts like the ones we consider, the utility of intervention is 0 at the decision threshold.