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Area of Science:

  • Social Sciences
  • Computer Science
  • Political Science

Background:

  • Demographic imputation is vital for auditing disparities and political targeting.
  • Current methods often discretize continuous predictions, leading to potential bias.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the phenomenon of discretization bias in demographic imputation.
  • To introduce and evaluate a novel method for mitigating this bias.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of argmax labeling for race/ethnicity imputation using real-world data.
  • Development and testing of a joint optimization approach with a data-driven threshold heuristic.

Main Results:

  • Argmax labeling significantly undercounts Black voters (e.g., 28.2% in North Carolina).
  • The proposed joint optimization method effectively eliminates discretization bias.
  • Negligible individual-level accuracy loss was observed with the new method.

Conclusions:

  • Discretization bias in demographic imputation has serious implications for downstream applications.
  • Calibrated continuous models alone cannot resolve this bias; specialized methods are necessary.
  • Researchers and practitioners must carefully consider the consequences of discretizing demographic predictions.