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How We Analyzed the COMPAS Recidivism Algorithm / Mattu Larson and Angwin Kirchner

We set out to assess one of the commercial tools made by Northpointe, Inc. to discover the underlying accuracy of their recidivism algorithm and to test whether the algorithm was biased against certain groups.

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