Inter-Rater Reliability is Individual Fairness

TL;DR

This paper establishes a theoretical link between inter-rater reliability and individual fairness, showing that the former is a specific instance of the latter, thereby providing a new perspective on fairness in evaluations.

Contribution

It demonstrates that inter-rater reliability can be viewed as a special case of individual fairness, bridging two important concepts in fairness and evaluation.

Findings

Inter-rater reliability is a special case of individual fairness.

The connection provides new insights into fairness in evaluation processes.

Theoretical framework linking reliability and fairness concepts.

Abstract

In this note, a connection between inter-rater reliability and individual fairness is established. It is shown that inter-rater reliability is a special case of individual fairness, a notion of fairness requiring that similar people are treated similarly.