Julia Angwin

Julia Angwin coauthored the COMPAS investigation.^[1]

In a May 2016 interview, she describes checking a surprising result: “I made Jeff recalculate it four times.”^[2] The published excerpt illustrates a reporter’s checking process; it is not an independent reproduction here, and the audio was not audited.

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