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Measuring and mitigating voting access disparities: a study of race and polling locations in Florida and North Carolina
Mohsen Abbasi, Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Sorelle A. Friedler +2
Voter suppression and associated racial disparities in access to voting are long-standing civil rights concerns in the United States. Barriers to voting have taken many forms over…
Flipping the Script on Criminal Justice Risk Assessment: An actuarial model for assessing the risk the federal sentencing system poses to defendants
Mikaela Meyer, Aaron Horowitz, Erica Marshall +1
In the criminal justice system, algorithmic risk assessment instruments are used to predict the risk a defendant poses to society; examples include the risk of recidivating or the…
Measuring Disparate Outcomes of Content Recommendation Algorithms with Distributional Inequality Metrics
Tomo Lazovich, Luca Belli, Aaron Gonzales +5
The harmful impacts of algorithmic decision systems have recently come into focus, with many examples of systems such as machine learning (ML) models amplifying existing societal b…
It's COMPASlicated: The Messy Relationship between RAI Datasets and Algorithmic Fairness Benchmarks
Michelle Bao, Angela Zhou, Samantha Zottola +5
Risk assessment instrument (RAI) datasets, particularly ProPublica's COMPAS dataset, are commonly used in algorithmic fairness papers due to benchmarking practices of comparing alg…