Bias and Algorithm Preferences in Public Policy

• In Event: Race, Ethnicity and Public Opinion

Brief Overview

We use a conjoint experiment in a large, high-quality sample with a large non-Hispanic black oversample to compare evaluations of bias in public policy algorithms for criminal sentencing.

Authors

• Ryan P. Kennedy, University of Houston

• Myriam Shiran, Purdue University

• Adam Ozer, University of Houston

• Philip Waggoner, YouGov