August 23, 2019

Analysis

Is it impossible to be fair?


Lorraine Daston has published widely in the history of science, including on probability and statistics, scientific objectivity and observation, game theory, monsters, and much else. Director at the Max Planck…

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An accurate understanding of the nature of race in our society is a prerequisite for an adequate normative theory of discrimination.

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Legal claims of disparate impact discrimination go something like this: A company uses some system (e.g., hiring test, performance review, risk assessment tool) in a way that impacts people. Somebody…

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