#Fairness

Stefanie Stantcheva

S_Stantcheva

[1/20]”Understanding Tax Policy: How do people reason?” New working paper on how people understand, reason & learn about taxes. What are the mental models that people use to think about

Emre Eren Korkmaz

Dr_Eren_Korkmaz

The algorithm scandal in the UK categorising students based on their social classes is a "great" example of how algorithms reproduce the social system.This is not a mistake. Most algorithms

Marc Lee

MarcLeeCCPA

Mobility pricing is back on the radar thanks to the City of Vancouver's climate emergency plan. Here's a thread based on research I did a couple years ago looking at

Julianna Rowsell

JuliannaRowsell

If you are in the decision making position of trading off accessibility in favour of security, be sure that the trade off A. accurate B. clearly communicated C. rooted in

Michael Galligan

mgalligan_egs

1/3I support the ASTI's stance for 5 reasons:1. My own son had 3 subjects downgraded. Other students were treated worse.Yet others were upgraded?Teacher's grades counted for little- No Fairness2. We

Pete Wharmby

commaficionado

Autism and 'fairness' - a thread.Please share, as its particularly relevant this week.All based on my own experiences, as always! Autistic people are often, generally quite intolerant of behaviour or

Dr Marie Casey

marietcasey

Here's what we need in relation to Covid communications right now.1. More from my colleagues on what's going on in the different regions in Ireland. Most departments do not have

Pete 🔥#CancelRent🔥 Harrison

PeteHarrisonNYC

I’m a prof at Baruch and teach about IT systems/media. It’s been frustrating to watch ppl bashing or defending Twitter/FB banning Trump cuz both are missing the history and challenges

Naomi Smith 🇬🇧🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

pimlicat

I tell you what “the British people” don’t like, and it’s a government that doesn’t suspend an alleged rapist, that has a near criminal mishandling of covid-19, and that is

Mike Novogratz

novogratz

1)This GME squeeze is deeper than a squeeze. its a large group of people saying they don't want Citadel preying on their orders from RH, they don't want IPO's being

Jon Pike

runthinkwrite

This might not go well. Here is a thread explaining why:https://twitter.com/WomenandSportCA/status/1334156773394182150 1/ In an article for @ConversationCA, in the name of the head of @EthicsInSPORT Bruce Kidd, the careful process

Nuzhat S. Siddiqi

guldaar

It's great that Unilever etc are doing away with fairness creams, but there's a catch. A thread: Commercial fairness creams have always been targeted towards middle, lower middle & lower

Matthew Stinson

stinson

One of the reasons the American free speech debate is so tortured (and unintelligible to Europeans) is that people on both sides identify free speech with the First Amendment (viz.

Neysun Mahboubi

NeysunM

What should federal courthouses look like? In a (functionally meaningless) executive order signed yesterday, the outgoing President says that federal buildings ought to invoke the classical architecture of ancient Athens

Anand Giridharadas

AnandWrites

A distinct feature of American culture is thinking certain things will put you on the road to tyranny when those things are the law of the land in many other

Sara Hooker

sarahookr

Yesterday, I ended up in a debate where the position was "algorithmic bias is a data problem".I thought this had already been well refuted within our research community but clearly

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