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Sources for Fairness through unawareness

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Obermeyer, Powers, Vogeli and Mullainathan Research paper

Dissecting racial bias in an algorithm used to manage the health of populations (original source, new tab)

2019 study of using healthcare spending as a proxy for need in a particular widely used algorithm.

Dwork, Hardt, Pitassi, Reingold and Zemel Research paper

Fairness Through Awareness (original source, new tab)

Individual fairness based on a task-specific similarity measure and its assumptions.

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