Saggy Pants Ordinance Analysis: Disparate Impact versus Respectability

Disparate Impact Realism

Does mitigating ML's disparate impact require disparate treatment?

Following related work in law and policy, two notions of prejudice have come to shape the study of fairness in algorithmic decision-making. Algorithms exhibit disparate treatment if they formally treat people differently according to a protected characteristic, like race, or if they intentionally discriminate (even if via proxy variables). Algorithms exhibit disparate impact if they affect subg...

Fairness Beyond Disparate Treatment & Disparate Impact: Learning Classification without Disparate Mistreatment

Automated data-driven decision making systems are increasingly being used to assist, or even replace humans in many settings. These systems function by learning from historical decisions, often taken by humans. In order to maximize the utility of these systems (or, classifiers), their training involves minimizing the errors (or, misclassifications) over the given historical data. However, it is...

Is Disparate Impact Having Any Impact? An Appellate Analysis of Forty Years of Disparate Impact Claims Under the Fair Housing Act

Predictive Bias and Disparate Impact Jennifer

* The views expressed in this article are those of the authors alone and do not reflect the official position of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. Lowenkamp specifically advises against using the PCRA to inform front-end sentencing decisions or back-end decisions about release without first conducting research on its use in these contexts, given that the PCRA was not designed for th...